Sr. AI Solutions Engineer

At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and their customers better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

We are seeking an experienced Sr. AI Solutions Engineer to join our Financial Data Analytics team and advance AI and automation across F5s CFO organization.

This senior hands-on individual contributor will transform business needs and early AI prototypes into secure reliable applications that other teams can confidently use and support. You will own technical design and implementation across the application lifecycle partnering with Finance stakeholders and F5s Digital organization.

This is an applied engineering rolenot a research or presales position. You will bring independent technical judgment establish reusable engineering patterns and help shape how Finance adopts AI responsibly and at scale.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design build and deploy AI applications spanning knowledge assistance document processing financial analysis and multi-step workflow automation.
• Assess existing prototypes and develop them into maintainable applications with usable interfaces enterprise integrations and clear operational ownership.
• Build reliable connections to approved enterprise systems and data sources incorporating permission-aware retrieval validated queries and controlled knowledge updates.
• Establish automated testing and AI evaluations covering factual grounding task completion numerical accuracy exception handling and representative business scenarios.
• Implement secure deployment and operational practices including access controls human approval gates audit logging monitoring cost management and recovery procedures.
• Translate stakeholder needs into requirements architecture estimates and acceptance criteria; select AI conventional automation or existing tools as appropriate.
• Create reusable components documentation and support runbooks; review vendor deliverables and support knowledge transfer demonstrations and team enablement.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Required

• Strong Python and SQL skills with demonstrated ownership of production applications from technical design through deployment and ongoing support.
• Hands-on experience building LLM applications using retrieval-augmented generation structured outputs tool calling and controlled multi-step workflows.
• Experience integrating enterprise APIs and data sources including authentication authorization background processing retries timeouts and failure recovery.
• Practical expertise in software and AI testing Git deployment pipelines environment management monitoring and release procedures.
• Understanding of secure AI application design including sensitive-data handling least privilege prompt-injection risks source attribution and human oversight.
• Ability to independently resolve ambiguous technical problems and communicate tradeoffs clearly to business stakeholders and technical partners.

Preferred

• Experience with Finance Accounting Internal Audit or other control-sensitive functions including document generation and evidence-based decision support.
• Experience with enterprise cloud AI services Microsoft Graph Dataverse SharePoint Copilot Studio or comparable platforms.
• Experience building MCP servers or integrations lightweight web applications and reusable services; familiarity with Salesforce Tableau or enterprise warehouses.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Information Systems or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of five years in software engineering applied AI data engineering or automation including demonstrated delivery of production LLM applications.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be all-inclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age sensory physical or mental disability marital status veteran or military status genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable local state or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including but not limited to hiring job assignment compensation promotion benefits training discipline and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .