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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

$120,000–$180,000Seattle, WA · San Jose, CASeattle, WA +1Senior

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About the job

Senior individual contributor leading greenfield AI and automation initiatives across F5’s enterprise applications and software development lifecycle.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

  • Prototype, ship, and measure AI tools that improve engineering throughput and SDLC outcomes
  • Design production agentic systems, RAG architectures, and AI automation for GTM, RevOps, support, and quote-to-cash workflows
  • Lead integrations across Salesforce, Oracle, ServiceNow/Zendesk, MuleSoft/Workato, and internal APIs
  • Own AI workload CI/CD, observability, reliability, evaluation, versioning, and rollback practices

What you’ll bring

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years with AI/ML systems, LLM applications, or enterprise intelligent automation
  • Expert Python skills including production code, REST APIs, async patterns, and reusable frameworks
  • Production experience shipping and operating agentic AI and RAG systems
  • Hands-on Salesforce experience and familiarity with Oracle application stacks

Technologies

Python · LangChain · LangGraph · MCP · Salesforce · Oracle · MuleSoft · Workato · Kubernetes · Datadog

About F5

Multicloud application delivery and security platform (BIG-IP, NGINX, Distributed Cloud) trusted by 85% of Fortune 500 to deliver and protect apps and APIs at scale.

Public · 5000+ people

Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$120,000–$180,000
Pay details

The annual base pay for this position is: $120,000.00 - $180,000.00

Location
Seattle, WA · San Jose, CA
Experience requirements
8+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work
Builds for teams inside the company

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How this compares

The middle of this range is $150,000, below the $195,000 median for the 1,771 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.