Solutions Engineer — AI & Data Science Specialist

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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 resultsparticularly 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 dont)
• 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 Youll 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 customer-friendly language.
• Help define acceptable risk thresholds and success criteria for enterprise AI security deployments.
• Partner with customers to refine prompts policies scanner descriptions and evaluation strategies.
• Act as the escalation point for complex AI behavior questions during evaluations and pilots.

Customer & GTM Enablement

• Partner with Account Executives and core Solutions Engineers during late-stage evaluations and technical deep dives.
• Support customer workshops focused on AI testing methodology evaluation frameworks and AI risk interpretation.
• Translate model behavior and statistical outcomes into business-relevant narratives (risk compliance trust readiness).
• Assist in shaping POC readouts executive summaries and customer-facing reports.

Internal Collaboration & Enablement

• Serve as the bridge between Solutions Engineering Product and Data Science when interpreting scanner performance and model behavior.
• Help define internal best practices for:
  • FP/FN analysis
  • Evaluation datasets
  • Prompt and policy tuning
  • Scanner validation strategies
• Create internal guidance playbooks and examples to raise the overall AI literacy of the SE team.
• Provide feedback to Product and Engineering based on real-world customer testing patterns.

What You Bring

Required

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Science Machine Learning AI or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience in a technical customer-facing role (Solutions Engineer ML Engineer Data Scientist Applied AI Engineer or similar).
• Strong understanding of:
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Prompt engineering and prompt evaluation
  • Model behavior bias and limitations
  • False positive / false negative tradeoffs in ML systems
• Experience analyzing model outputs classification results or evaluation metrics.
• Ability to explain complex AI/ML concepts clearly to non-data-scientists.

Strongly Preferred

• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering LLM evaluation or model testing.
• Familiarity with AI security concepts such as:
  • Prompt injection
  • Jailbreaks
  • Data leakage
  • Model misuse and abuse patterns
• Experience working with real customer datasets or evaluation pipelines.
• Comfort working with Python notebooks or lightweight analysis tooling (even if not production-focused).

Ideal Candidate Profile

• You enjoy explaining why models behave the way they do.
• Youre comfortable living in the gray areas of AInot everything is deterministic and that excites you.
• You can balance statistical rigor with practical customer-facing recommendations.
• Youre energized by helping teams and customers make informed decisions not just pass/fail judgments.
• You thrive in fast-moving environments where AI technology security threats and customer expectations are evolving rapidly.

Why This Role Matters

As AI adoption accelerates customers are no longer just asking Does it worktheyre asking:

• Is this safe
• Can we trust the results
• Are these false positives acceptable
• What risk remains if we loosen or tighten controls

This role exists to answer those questions with confidence clarity and credibility.

Why Join F5s AI Center of Excellence

Youll be part of a small high-impact team shaping how enterprises evaluate trust and secure AI systems at runtime. Youll work on some of the most complex and interesting AI security problems in the marketwhile having real influence on customers products and strategy.

If youre passionate about AI behavior evaluation and real-world impactand want to apply that expertise in a customer-facing rolewed love to talk.

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.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

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