Sr AI ML Engineer

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.

AI / ML Engineer

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 everyone can thrive.

Position Summary

F5 is seeking a pragmatic handson AI/ML professional to develop fundamental components of F5s next generation cybersecurity and application delivery tools. The ideal candidate has deep experience applying machine learning techniques to domains such as entity recognition sentiment analysis fraud prevention or data sanitization to improve business outcomes.

This role will create and refine innovative AI/ML models that allow F5s global customers to safely deploy generative AI technologies within their own organizations confident in the guardrails and protections enabled by your work.

Successful applicants will have a proven track record in completing the full product lifecycle from design and implementation to gathering feedback and iterating on systems frameworks and tools for AI/ML products. They have experience overseeing system integrations and the continuous integration of ML models. They help build measure and iterate on productiondeployed systems while leveraging a strategic mindset for problemsolving and driving continuous enhancements to user experiences.

Primary Responsibilities

• Train and finetune proprietary models to achieve business goals.
• Collect synthesize clean or augment appropriate datasets.
• Establish longitudinal benchmarks for evaluating and improving model efficacy.
• Provide technical leadership and advice to the business regarding its use of machine learning.
• Drive the adoption of standard AI/ML processes in development testing documentation and maintenance.
• Stay abreast of the latest AI/ML developments and evaluate potential impacts and opportunities for our products and services.
  

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques (clustering decision tree learning neural networks etc. and their realworld advantages/drawbacks.
• Knowledge of advanced mathematical and statistical techniques and concepts (multivariate analysis properties of distributions statistical tests etc. and when to apply them.
• Proficiency with one or more Machine Learning development libraries and/or hardware acceleration platforms (e.g. PyTorch Keras Tensorflow CUDA ROCm etc.
• Handson experience with cloud computing platforms and production deployments of ML workloads particularly via Kubernetes.

• Experience leading AI/ML projects and tool adoption building and operating large scale distributed systems with continuous delivery and integration.

• Excellent written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work asynchronously in a globally distributed team.

• Ability to effectively foster and maintain consensus on AI/ML approaches and solutions to ensure consistency and collaboration across multiple business units and stakeholders.Domain knowledge of cybersecurity networking or WAF/WAAP solutions is a plus.

• Fluency with a second natural language is also a plus.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience developing training and deploying AI/ML models; and building workflows infrastructure and tooling.
• Masters degree or Ph.D. in Mathematics Statistics Computer Science or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
  
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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be allinclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

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 F5s 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 F5s benefits can be found at the following link:https://www.f5/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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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 .