Customer Success Engineer

Niche

Also known as: Solutions Engineer, Technical Customer Success Manager, Customer Engineer

Technology & AIBachelor's DegreeStrong Growth

Combine technical expertise with relationship management to help enterprise customers achieve their goals with complex software products.

Salary Range

Entry Level

$110K

Starting salary

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Top Level

$200K

Top salary

Director of Customer Success Engineering / VP of Solutions

The highest-paid specialization or seniority level for customer success engineers.

About 1 in 14 reaches this level

Field of ~30-50K practitioners in SaaS; Director-level roles at $200K exist at enterprise software companies with technical customer bases.

Salary data based on 2025 BLS, Glassdoor, and industry reports. Actual compensation varies by location, experience, and employer.

How to Become One

This career typically requires a bachelor's degree.

AI Risk Assessment

Increasing Risk (Level 3/5)How we score ›

AI chatbots and agentic support systems now handle Tier 1 and increasingly Tier 2 technical support. Companies report AI agents resolve 40-60% of customer issues without human intervention. Enterprise relationship management remains human, but fewer CSEs are needed per account as each one is amplified by AI tooling. The entry-level funnel for new graduates is noticeably narrowing.