AI / ML Engineer II at F5

**Who this is for** This role is for a mid-level AI/ML Engineer eager to join F5's AI Center of Excellence to bridge the gap between applied research and produc

Work type: remote

Location: Seattle

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** This role is for a mid-level AI/ML Engineer eager to join F5's AI Center of Excellence to bridge the gap between applied research and production-grade software. It is ideal for someone who enjoys prototyping new technologies and designing scalable architectures for complex business problems. **Key highlights** You will work on cutting-edge AI initiatives, including generative AI and transformer models, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate these tools into existing product platforms. The position offers a unique blend of high-level research and practical engineering, ensuring your work directly impacts F5’s global security and application delivery solutions. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Possess a Master’s degree in a technical field and 2-4 years of industry experience in applied AI or machine learning. - Are highly proficient in Python and SQL with a track record of building and evaluating ML models. - Have practical experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and MLOps tools like Docker or Kubernetes. - Can effectively translate complex technical research into actionable documentation and architecture recommendations for stakeholders.

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.

Who We Are
Together, we're building a better digital world.

Founded in 1996, F5 is a global leader in application delivery and security. Our premier platform helps customers secure and deliver every app, API, and piece of infrastructure across all environments. Backed by over three decades of expertise and 553 patents, our solutions protect against threats while ensuring fast, reliable digital experiences.

With over 6,400 employees, we serve more than 23,000 customers in over 170 countries. To continue this work, we need people like you—the best minds in the industry. We're committed to a unique, human-first culture that encourages authenticity, prioritizes diversity and inclusion, and fosters the growth and success of our employees.

Position Summary
The AI Center of Excellence is seeking an AI Center of Excellence Engineer to support applied AI research, prototyping, and engineering initiatives. This role helps evaluate emerging AI techniques, develop best practices for applying AI to business and product challenges, and create architecture recommendations for integrating AI capabilities into production systems. The position also supports evaluation of solution effectiveness through defined performance and business outcomes, helping ensure AI efforts deliver practical value. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in Python, SQL, machine learning experimentation, and modern AI engineering environments, supported by a master’s-level foundation in data science or a related technical field.

The ideal candidate will be able to:

Support research and evaluation of emerging AI, machine learning, and generative AI techniques for product, platform, and business applications.

Build prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and technical experiments to assess feasibility, performance, scalability, and implementation tradeoffs.

Assist in the development of data pipelines, model evaluation workflows, benchmarking processes, and deployment-readiness practices.

Contribute to architecture recommendations and implementation guidance for integrating AI capabilities into products and internal platforms.

Prepare technical documentation, research summaries, and implementation guidance for engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

2-4 years of relevant industry experience, or equivalent graduate research and internship experience, in machine learning, data science, or applied AI.

Strong programming skills in Python and strong working knowledge of SQL.

Experience developing, evaluating, and analyzing machine learning models in applied or production-oriented environments.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into practical recommendations.

Familiarity with modern AI topics such as transformer architecture, time series analysis, anomaly detection, or generative AI.

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to cloud and MLOps environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow, or Databricks.

Experience with distributed data or ML systems using tools such as Spark or cloud-based processing frameworks.

Understanding of responsible AI, explainability, model monitoring, drift detection, or data quality validation practices.

Hands-on experience using Jupyter for experimentation, analysis, model development, and technical investigation.

Core Competencies

Analytical problem-solving and structured technical thinking

Ability to collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams

Attention to documentation, quality, and implementation detail

Learning agility in fast-evolving technical environments

What Success Looks Like

Produces clear, well-structured documentation and research summaries for stakeholders.

Contributes to practical architecture guidance for integrating AI into products and platforms.

Supports experimentation and implementation efforts with sound engineering discipline.

Becomes a dependable contributor across both research-focused and engineering-focused initiatives.

Why Join the AI Center of Excellence
This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of AI research, engineering, and product innovation. The successful candidate will gain exposure to modern AI methods, experimentation frameworks, and architectural patterns for bringing AI solutions into production. It is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with strong graduate training and applied experience to help shape how AI is adopted across the organization.

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: $142,400.00 - $213,600.00

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](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).

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