Sr. AI Solutions Engineer
F5 Networks5 days ago
Base Salary
$199k - $298k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy AI applications for knowledge assistance, document processing, financial analysis, and multi-step workflow automation.
- Turn AI prototypes into maintainable applications with usable interfaces, enterprise integrations, and clear operational ownership.
- Integrate approved enterprise systems and data sources with permission-aware retrieval, validated queries, authentication, authorization, retries, timeouts, and failure recovery.
- Establish automated software testing and AI evaluations for 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, selecting appropriate AI, automation, or existing tools.
- Create reusable components, documentation, and support runbooks; review vendor deliverables and support knowledge transfer, demonstrations, and team enablement.
Requirements
- Strong Python and SQL skills with 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 with software and AI testing, Git, deployment pipelines, environment management, monitoring, and release procedures.
- Understanding of secure AI application design, sensitive-data handling, least privilege, prompt-injection risks, source attribution, and human oversight.
- Ability to resolve ambiguous technical problems independently and communicate tradeoffs clearly to business and technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of experience in software engineering, applied AI, data engineering, or automation, including delivery of production LLM applications.
- Preferred experience includes Finance, Accounting, Internal Audit, enterprise cloud AI services, Microsoft Graph, Dataverse, SharePoint, Copilot Studio, MCP servers, lightweight web applications, reusable services, Salesforce, Tableau, or enterprise warehouses.
Benefits
- Annual base pay range is $198,900.00-$298,300.00.
- Additional incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits may be offered.
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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.