Occupation
Sales Engineer
A Sales Engineer bridges technical expertise and sales, supporting the sales team with product demonstrations and technical presentations that show how a solution solves a prospective client's problem. They practice solution selling, working closely with account executives and using CRM tools like Salesforce to manage technical evaluations through the deal cycle. This role is common in technology and industrial companies and suits people with an engineering or technical background who also enjoy client-facing communication.
Duties & responsibilities
- Conduct technical demonstrations and presentations showing how products solve customer problems
- Design and execute proof-of-concepts and technical evaluations with prospective clients
- Translate customer business needs and technical requirements into solution architecture
- Partner with sales teams to advance complex deals through the evaluation cycle
- Present technical concepts and product capabilities to both technical and executive stakeholders
- Guide customers through deployment, integration, and production launch phases
- Build relationships with technical decision-makers and multi-stakeholder buying committees
What Sales Engineer roles involve, from employers’ own postings.
How much does a Sales Engineer make?
Employers posting Sales Engineer roles list a median of $170,000 a year (middle half $149,000–$223,000), from 31 postings that state pay.
54% of open Sales Engineer roles publish a range. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it. Which states’ postings state pay
Who is hiring for Sales Engineer roles?
57 open Sales Engineer roles from 30 employers; the most at SAP, Comcast and Crane Co., and in New York, California and Colorado.
From employers’ own postings, as of.
Sales Engineer in the job market
Last checked October 28, 2026
- Open roles
- 57
- Employers
- 30
- Median pay
- $170,000
- Disclose pay
- 54%
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Open Sales Engineer roles (57)
Sales Engineer
Beckman Coulter
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Staff Mission Solutions Engineer
BlackSky
Full-time · Seattle, WA · $165,000 – $205,000 · Remote
This role combines deep technical expertise in satellite imaging systems with hands-on sales leadership, positioning you as the technical authority for BlackSky's international defense and intelligence customers. You'll guide complex satellite procurement deals from initial qualification through close, traveling internationally to brief government stakeholders and translate their mission needs into tailored constellation designs.
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Deployed Engineer (Bay Area)
LangChain
Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $185,000 – $315,000
LangChain is seeking a technically skilled professional to work directly with customers building and deploying AI agent systems in production, combining software engineering expertise with customer-facing technical leadership. This role bridges engineering and sales, requiring hands-on architecture and deployment work across the full customer lifecycle, with significant travel to client sites.
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Sales Engineer
Blumberg Portfolio
New York, NY · Remote
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AI Sales Engineer
Vectara
Full-time · US West Coast (Bay Area strongly preferred)
Vectara seeks an experienced sales engineer to serve as the technical bridge between their AI agent platform and enterprise customers, guiding them from evaluation through production deployment. This role suits someone who combines deep technical credibility in AI/ML systems with the interpersonal skills to influence customer strategy and help shape product direction.
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Senior Sales Solutions Engineer
VidMob
New York, NY · $135,000 – $150,000
This role combines technical expertise with enterprise sales, helping major advertisers integrate Vidmob's creative data platform and AI tools into their existing systems. It suits someone with both deep technical chops and the ability to translate between engineering and business stakeholders during complex sales cycles.
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Applied AI Architect, Startups
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
New York, NY · $240,000 – $315,000
This role sells Claude AI to startup founders and engineers, providing technical guidance to help them build and deploy LLM applications. You'll combine sales expertise with deep hands-on AI engineering knowledge to become a trusted technical partner through evaluation, architecture design, and deployment support.
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GenAI Technology Architect
Moody's Corporation
Full-time · New York, NY · $135,700 – $196,750
This role combines technical expertise with sales leadership, helping enterprise clients integrate generative AI into their risk management and compliance workflows. It suits experienced technology professionals who can build relationships, create thought leadership, and guide complex sales cycles while staying current with AI innovation.
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Anwendungstechniker im Vertrieb (m/w/d) Region Saarland
Stanley Black & Decker
Full-time · Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Idstein, Deutschland
A sales engineer role with Stanley Black & Decker promoting power tools, hand tools, and storage solutions to trade customers across the Saarland region. You'll travel with a demo vehicle to show products on-site to contractors and tradespeople, identify new business opportunities, and grow customer relationships through technical expertise and practical application knowledge.
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Sales Engineer
CesiumAstro
Full-time · Westminster, CO · $121,000 – $143,000
This Sales Engineer role involves promoting and supporting CesiumAstro's advanced antenna systems for satellite and airborne communications. The position suits someone with technical depth who can engage customers across aerospace, defense, and commercial markets while bridging engineering and sales.
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Where Sales Engineers commonly go next: Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer.
Solutions Architect
Citrix Systems
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Solutions Architect
Dataminr
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Enterprise Solutions Architect
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Washington, DC · $143,913 – $187,093
This federal role advises senior leaders and project teams on enterprise technology modernization, with a focus on designing AI-integrated architectures that connect data platforms, business systems, and automation tools to drive organizational efficiency and decision-making. It suits someone with deep expertise in enterprise solutions who can bridge the gap between business strategy and technical implementation, particularly in artificial intelligence and platform integration.
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Deployed Engineer, Professional Services
LangChain
Atlanta, GA · $150,000 – $270,000 · Remote
A Production AI Specialist role at LangChain where you'll partner with enterprise customers to architect, build, and deploy agent systems from concept through production. This suits someone with hands-on experience shipping AI agents in Python who enjoys bridging the gap between technical strategy and implementation, moving fluidly between advisory, collaborative, and fully embedded delivery models.
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Solutions Architect III
ExtraHop Networks
Full-time · Remote · $150,000 – $163,000
This Solutions Architect role focuses on helping enterprise customers extract maximum value from ExtraHop's network detection platform through custom development and strategic guidance. You'll combine hands-on scripting, deep technical analysis, and customer collaboration to solve complex security and performance problems.
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Senior Solutions Engineer - Central
LaunchDarkly
Remote - US Central · $182,600 – $295,350
A trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers and sales teams at LaunchDarkly, this role combines pre-sales engineering with customer advocacy, building custom demonstrations and guiding complex implementations of feature management and DevOps solutions. You'll work across multiple verticals, mentor colleagues, and shape the product roadmap through deep customer relationships.
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Applied AI Architect, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences Community & Enablement)
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $275,000 – $315,000
This role leads hands-on programs to help scientists adopt Claude for research, from running workshops and demos to scaling training across Anthropic's teams. It's a fit for someone with real scientific background and a track record of building adoption programs who wants to shape how frontier AI reaches the research community.
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Staff Solutions Architect, Business Systems
Tonal
San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $250,000 · Remote
This role leads comprehensive system design and implementation across Tonal's integrated business applications—NetSuite, Salesforce, and iPaaS platforms—spanning commerce, finance, and fulfillment processes. It suits someone with deep ERP expertise who thrives translating between technical architecture and business strategy while shepherding complex solutions through to adoption.
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Solutions Architect
Noom
Princeton, NJ
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Solutions Architect
OpenRouter
Remote (US)
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Senior Technical Account Manager
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GENERAL ENGINEER
Air Force Materiel Command
Kirtland AFB, New Mexico · $132,751 – $172,578
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Systems Engineer
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Contract · Redstone Arsenal, Alabama · $130,987 – $197,200
This is a technical leadership role in the Department of Defense's Space Development Agency, where you will serve as the chief engineering authority at an operations center, advising senior military leadership on complex space systems and directing real-time crisis response for satellite and ground infrastructure. The position suits experienced aerospace or systems engineers with deep expertise in spacecraft operations, cloud architectures, and integration testing who thrive in high-stakes, fast-paced environments.
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Systems Engineer
Sullair Corporation
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Sales Consultant
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What employers state they pay
Median
$170,000
Middle half
$149,000 – $223,000
From 31 of 57 open roles — the 54% that publish a range, annualized to USD. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it.
Who employers are hiring
- Entry29%
- Mid31%
- Senior36%
- Management5%
From 42 roles whose posting states a level.
Skills Sales Engineer postings ask for
Measured from the 57 open roles, not from a curated list.
- Python12 roles21.1%
- Cloud Solutions9 roles15.8%
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)8 roles14.0%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)7 roles12.3%
- Kubernetes7 roles12.3%
- Microsoft Azure7 roles12.3%
- SQL6 roles10.5%
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)4 roles7.0%
- JavaScript4 roles7.0%
- MEDDIC/MEDDPICC4 roles7.0%
Where Sales Engineer roles are
Among the 29 of 57 open roles we could place on a map.
Employers hiring Sales Engineers
30 in total, most open roles first.
- SSAP13 roles
Comcast4 roles
Crane Co.3 roles- CCrowdStrike3 roles
- AAmplitude2 roles
- AEArrow Electronics2 roles
- BPBlumberg Portfolio2 roles
Intuit2 roles