Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Security
F5 Networks23 hours ago
Remote, United States +5 moreSenior
Base Salary
$146k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical onboarding and implementation for new customers, including planning, scoping, milestones, and success metrics.
- Own the post-sales technical relationship with customer engineering and security teams.
- Develop implementation plans that help customers achieve First Time to Value quickly and reliably.
- Identify and escalate blockers, misaligned expectations, and skill gaps.
- Coordinate with Sales, Engineering, Services, Product, Support, and Development on handoffs, knowledge sharing, and issue resolution.
- Document repeatable processes, technical guides, implementation templates, and internal runbooks.
- Triage technical issues, coordinate support needs, and advocate for customers through product and services feedback.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in a post-sales technical role such as TAM, Solutions Engineer, Integration Engineer, or Implementation Consultant.
- Experience building and/or deploying AI systems or applications.
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, including networking, containers, and security protocols.
- Experience leading on-premises, hybrid, or complex SaaS deployments and integrations.
- Experience working with enterprise customers in regulated industries; AI/ML or cybersecurity product experience is a major plus.
- Strong communication, project management, expectation-setting, timeline management, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Ability to work independently and proactively in a high-growth environment with ambiguity.
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, commission, and benefits package.
- Opportunities for career growth and advancement.
- May be open to remote locations in the United States as a field employee.
- Requires up to 25% travel to client sites.
Tech Stack
OpenShift
Categories
Forward Deployed
About F5 Networks
F5, Inc. builds application delivery and security products for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning on‑premises, cloud, and edge environments. It sells software, hardware appliances, and SaaS subscriptions for load balancing, WAF, API security, DDoS protection, and traffic management, with support services. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, the public company (NASDAQ: FFIV) expanded its portfolio through acquisitions including NGINX and Shape Security.