Sr. AI Solutions Engineer

F5; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 199,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Sr. AI Solutions Engineer to join the Financial Data Analytics team. You will transform AI prototypes into secure, reliable applications and own the design and implementation across the lifecycle, partnering with Finance stakeholders. This is an applied engineering role focused on responsible AI at scale.

The role emphasizes independent technical judgment, reusable patterns, and collaboration with the Digital organization to advance AI initiatives within CFO processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of five years in software engineering, applied AI, data engineering, or automation with production LLM applications.

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 and enterprise integrations.
• Build reliable connections to approved enterprise systems and data sources with authentication, authorization, retries and controlled knowledge updates.
• Establish automated testing and AI evaluations covering grounding, task completion, and numerical accuracy in business scenarios.
• Implement secure deployment and operational practices including access controls, audit logging, and cost management.
• Translate stakeholder needs into requirements, architecture, estimates, and acceptance criteria; select AI or tools as appropriate.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM apps

API integration

Testing & CI

Security by design

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Git

Deployment pipelines

Monitoring

Job description

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 F5’s 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 F5’s Digital organization.

This is an applied engineering role—not 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

• Bachelor’s 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.

The annual base pay for this position is: $198,900.00 - $298,300.00

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 F5’s 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 F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com)****.

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 [e-mail].