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Solutions Engineer (Chicago)

Join LangChain as a Solutions Engineer to tackle applied AI challenges and shape the future of intelligent agents in production.

Location
Chicago, IL
Compensation
$200k–$250k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time

Posted by employer 1 month ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago

Last verified on the company career page 11 hours ago

Role intensity

70% hands-on coding

AI in the day-to-day

We build the foundation for agent engineering, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents.

Requirements

Experience
6+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Flexible Vacation Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Solutions Engineer at LangChain engages directly with customers to tackle complex applied AI challenges, ensuring that production-ready agents meet real-world demands. The position requires a strong technical background, particularly in solutions or software engineering, with a focus on architecture reviews and proof-of-concept development. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in technical sales cycles and a passion for deploying AI agents in production environments. LangChain's Deployed Engineering team operates at the intersection of engineering, product, and sales, making this a pivotal role in shaping customer experiences and product evolution.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 20, 2026. Last confirmed on LangChain's careers page October 7, 2026.
  • Salary band is in line with the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
  • Starts above 61% of 147 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $180,000 across 55 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
  • AI/ML appears in 43.4% of 544 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States; Deep Agents appears in 0.7% of 544 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

What's the salary range?
LangChain lists $200,000–$250,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 6 years of relevant experience for this Solutions Engineer (Chicago) role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, AWS, Azure, Deep Agents, GCP, Kubernetes.
What seniority level is this role?
LangChain targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Solutions Engineer (Chicago) role at LangChain.

From the original posting

About Us

About the team

The Deployed Engineering team is the technical front line of our go-to-market motion. We partner with account executives from the first technical conversation through production rollout, helping companies evaluate LangChain, prove it out on their hardest use case, and get agents running reliably at scale.

This is a hands-on, highly technical team. Solutions Engineers own the technical win: scoping evaluations, designing POCs that mirror real workloads, answering the deep architecture questions that decide a deal, and staying with the customer after signature to make sure what we sold actually ships.

We sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and sales. What we learn in the field shapes both how customers adopt LangChain and what we build next.

 

About the role

You will work on some of the hardest problems in applied AI, in front of customers, on a clock. Not demos, not research: systems real teams depend on in production. The feedback loop is fast, the impact is measurable in closed deals and live deployments, and the work directly shapes how AI agents get built in the real world.

 

What you'll do

  • Own the technical win. Partner with AEs to scope evaluations, run technical discovery, and design POCs that map to the customer's real use case rather than a canned demo

  • Be the technical authority in the room during architecture reviews, security and infrastructure questions, and head-to-head evaluations

  • Co-architect and co-build production AI agents with customer engineering teams, from prototype through rollout

  • Help customers deploy and operate agent-based applications such as conversational agents, research agents, and multi-step workflows

  • Run demos, trainings, and workshops for developer audiences, from single-team sessions to larger technical enablement

  • Advise customers post-sale on architecture, best practices, and roadmap-level decisions, and find the expansion opportunities that come out of those conversations

  • Surface field feedback to product and build reusable POC assets, cookbooks, and example code that scale across accounts

  • Contribute code upstream when it meaningfully improves customer outcomes

 

What you'll bring

  • 6+ years in a relevant technical role such as solutions engineering, sales engineering, customer engineering, software engineering, or founding and product engineering, ideally at a startup or scale-up

  • Comfort owning the technical thread in a sales cycle: discovery, POCs, architecture reviews, and competitive evaluations

  • Ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly and build trust with developer audiences, then translate that into a decision the customer is ready to make

  • A track record of taking responsibility for outcomes, not just recommendations

  • A bias toward action and a willingness to figure things out as you go

  • Genuine interest in operating AI agents in production, not just building demos

 

Nice to haves

  • You've deployed AI agents in production, especially using LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks

  • Experience carrying a technical number or working against pipeline alongside a sales team

  • Experience with LLM evaluation, observability, or guardrails

  • Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), containers, and basic Kubernetes concepts

 

Compensation

Annual OTE range: $200,000–$275,000 USD. Final compensation will depend on experience, skills, and location.

Looking for a hands-on implementation role focused on custom delivery, bespoke integrations, and scoped consulting projects? Please check out the Deployed Engineer (Professional Services) roles.

 

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