Senior AI Forward-Deployed Engineer

F5; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Digital – Customer Experience Organization. You will be a hands-on contributor moving from business problem to prototype quickly, then iterating to production.

The role blends AI for the SDLC, internal productivity, and enterprise automation, with a focus on greenfield development rather than sustaining existing systems. You will design, build, and roll out AI-powered tooling across GTM, RevOps, and support processes, setting patterns

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years hands-on with AI/ML systems, LLM application engineering, or enterprise intelligent automation.
• Expert Python: production-quality code, REST API design, async patterns, and reusable framework design.
• Production agentic AI and RAG systems you have shipped and operated, not demos.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and ship internal tools that raise team throughput: AI-assisted coding workflows, automated code review, test generation and QA automation, and AI drafting of PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Go from idea to MVP in days. Scope it, build it, demo it, get real users on it, then decide to harden or kill.
• Roll out and tune AI developer platforms across engineering teams, including standards, prompt and context patterns, guardrails, and adoption.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Python

Enterprise integration

CI/CD tooling

Prompt engineering

Problem solving

Tools

Salesforce (Flows, Apex, CPQ, Agentforce/Einstein)

Oracle applications

MuleSoft

Workato

Boomi

Docker/Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

LangChain/LangGraph

Job description

F5 is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Digital – Customer Experience Organization. You will be a hands-on contributor moving from business problem to prototype quickly, then iterating to production.

The role blends AI for the SDLC, internal productivity, and enterprise automation, with a focus on greenfield development rather than sustaining existing systems. You will design, build, and roll out AI-powered tooling across GTM, RevOps, and support processes, setting patterns