Solutions Engineer — AI & Data Science Specialist

About this role

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.


Role Overview
F5 is expanding its
AI Center of Excellence
and is hiring a
Specialist Solutions Engineer
with deep expertise in
AI, Data Science, and LLM behavior
to support our
AI Runtime Security
portfolio.


This is a highly specialized SE role designed to fill a critical gap between
customer-facing solution engineering
and
internal data science
. The primary focus of this role is to
interpret, analyze, and explain AI security testing results
—particularly outcomes from Proof of Concepts (POCs), red-teaming exercises, and runtime guardrail evaluations.


You will act as the
AI/ML subject-matter expert within the Solutions Engineering organization
, helping customers and internal teams understand:

• Why scanners trigger (or don’t)
• The tradeoffs between false positives and false negatives
• Model behavior under adversarial or ambiguous inputs
• How tuning, thresholds, and policy design impact real-world outcomes

Think of this role as a hybrid between a
Solutions Engineer, Prompt Engineer, and Applied AI Analyst
, deeply technical, customer-facing, and outcome-oriented.


What You’ll Do
AI & Data Science Specialization

• Analyze and interpret results from AI Runtime Security POCs, including red-team campaigns, prompt/response scans, and inference-layer inspections.
• Diagnose false positives and false negatives, explaining root causes in clear, cust...