Senior Software Engineer – Agentic AI Tools

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 innovative and highly skilled Software Engineer III specializing in agentic AI tool building to lead the development and deployment of AI agents tools and models. This role primarily focuses on creating autonomous AI agents that support threat research by integrating external sources such as CVE databases vulnerability feeds threat intelligence APIs scraped articles and trending topics along with internal sources such as F5 product deployment data and telemetry. These agents will accelerate research across AI security application security bots post-quantum cryptography and other emerging cybersecurity areas.

In addition this role will build AI-driven technical marketing tools and broader AI-powered security tools that translate security and non-security insights into demos dashboards technical content and customer-facing assets. You will work closely with product management architects technical marketing engineering software engineering and threat research experts to create AI-driven tools that support both deep technical research and practical security storytelling.

Key Responsibilities:

Agentic AI Tool and Model Development:

• Build and implement AI agents that autonomously scrape ingest correlate and analyze data from external and internal sources to support threat research and broader security use cases.
• Build agents using Python TypeScript and where relevant Go along with LangChain LangGraph CrewAI LlamaIndex APIs web scraping libraries and ML frameworks for predictive analytics and research workflows.
• Enhance F5 platform and portfolio integration including AI Security BIG-IP NGINX and Distributed Cloud with AI agents and supporting tools for scalable research security analysis and technical marketing engineering assets.

Threat Research Security Intelligence and Technical Marketing Enablement:

• Engineer AI-driven agents to detect analyze and assess emerging threats across AI security app security bots PQC and related trends.
• Turn research findings into usable outputs for internal teams and customer-facing security narratives.
• Partner with technical marketing engineering teams to improve the quality scale and effectiveness of demos technical articles webinars presentations automation and use case validation.

Security Tools Automation Testing and Insights:

• Develop AI-powered security and non-security tools dashboards and web experiences for technical marketing demos presentations testing and research.
• Build pipelines for AI workload optimization observability testing and automation across research and technical marketing engineering use cases.
• Support validation and testing of security tools demo environments and customer use cases to improve repeatability and technical depth.

Collaborative Innovation:

• Develop AI agents and tools independently or in close collaboration with product management architects technical marketing engineering software engineering and threat research teams.
• Adapt tools and workflows to evolving business priorities including broader security and non-security opportunities.

Deliverables:

• Innovative threat research reports deep technical articles and threat intelligence newsletters.
• AI-powered security tools interactive dashboards test tools and web-based tools for research demos and technical marketing engineering.
• Enhanced technical marketing engineering deliverables such as demos technical articles presentations webinars automation use case testing validation outcomes and reusable tools.
• Presentations infographics and customer-facing technical content for F5 and industry conferences.
• Reusable AI-driven assets that improve the efficiency quality and impact of both threat intelligence and broader security marketing efforts.

Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in AI/ML engineering including recent hands-on work building and deploying agentic AI systems for research automation and intelligence generation.
• Strong expertise in Python and in designing and orchestrating autonomous and multi-step AI agents for research and security workflows.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain LangGraph CrewAI and LlamaIndex.
• Working knowledge of OpenAI Anthropic Gemini and NVIDIA model ecosystems.
• Experience with RAG architectures prompt engineering tool calling embeddings vector databases and workflow design for reliable AI agents.
• Experience with MLflow Kubeflow BentoML and related MLOps and AI deployment tools.
• Strong expertise in data ingestion using APIs web scraping BeautifulSoup and Scrapy including pipelines for CVEs vulnerability databases threat feeds blogs and other external/internal data sources.
• Familiarity with F5 products such as AI Security BIG-IP NGINX App Protect and Distributed Cloud API Security or equivalent platforms is nice to have.
• Foundational understanding of cybersecurity concepts and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and OWASP.
• Proven success delivering AI-driven research tools security and non-security tools scalable automation and technical outputs that improve technical marketing engineering assets such as demos articles testing workflows webinars presentations and reusable validation tools.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering product management technical marketing engineering research and data science teams.

Why Join Us
Join F5 transformative journey in agentic AI to build the next generation of security and threat intelligence tools. Work with cutting-edge technologies to create agents and AI-powered experiences that support deep research technical marketing and customer engagement. Collaborate closely across teams to shape impactful tools that strengthen F5 leadership in modern security.

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