> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Sr. AI Solutions Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/900bed89d806a672 F5 posts a senior FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Seattle, WA, at $198,900–$298,300 base, above the staff+ FDE median of $225,000 across 388 postings with pay. Senior hands-on individual contributor responsible for turning AI prototypes and Finance business needs into secure, production-ready applications across F5’s CFO organization. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [F5](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/f5) First seen Sep 24, 2026 · open on Workday as of Nov 8, 2026 **$198,900–$298,300** Seattle, WA Full-time Senior hands-on individual contributor responsible for turning AI prototypes and Finance business needs into secure, production-ready applications across F5’s CFO organization. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F900bed89d806a672&placement=top) - [View posting at F5](https://ffive.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/f5jobs/job/Seattle/Sr-AI-Solutions-Engineer_RP1038873) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $199K–$298K Above the median Midpoint $249K · median $225K This job $199K to $298K. Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Staff+ - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** software engineering, applied AI, data engineering, or automation, including delivery of production LLM applications Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a staff-level role. What level are you at now? The job is in Seattle, WA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Seattle, WA - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [T-Mobile](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/t-mobile) ### [Principal Engineer, Commercial AI Forward Deployment](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0d002cfe83270d07) Seattle, WA · Frisco, TX Hybrid 3w ago $164,500–$296,700 [Prologis](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/prologis) ### [Lead Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b5974981b5313d0c) Denver, CO · Atlanta, GA · +8 more 6w ago $200,000–$285,000 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Senior Software Development Engineer, Frontier AI Tools](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/595786cb37da4bed) Austin, TX · Seattle, WA · +1 more 5w ago $168,100–$227,400 - [Other jobs at F5 (5)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/f5) ## The job description from F5 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 experienced **Sr. AI Solutions Engineer** to join our Financial Data Analytics team and advance AI and automation across F5’s CFO organization. This senior, hands-on individual contributor will transform business needs and early AI prototypes into secure, reliable applications that other teams can confidently use and support. You will own technical design and implementation across the application lifecycle, partnering with Finance stakeholders and F5’s Digital organization. This is an applied engineering role—not a research or presales position. You will bring independent technical judgment, establish reusable engineering patterns, and help shape how Finance adopts AI responsibly and at scale. ### Primary Responsibilities - Design, build, and deploy AI applications spanning knowledge assistance, document processing, financial analysis, and multi-step workflow automation. - Assess existing prototypes and develop them into maintainable applications with usable interfaces, enterprise integrations, and clear operational ownership. - Build reliable connections to approved enterprise systems and data sources, incorporating permission-aware retrieval, validated queries, and controlled knowledge updates. - Establish automated testing and AI evaluations covering factual grounding, task completion, numerical accuracy, exception handling, and representative business scenarios. - Implement secure deployment and operational practices, including access controls, human approval gates, audit logging, monitoring, cost management, and recovery procedures. - Translate stakeholder needs into requirements, architecture, estimates, and acceptance criteria; select AI, conventional automation, or existing tools as appropriate. - Create reusable components, documentation, and support runbooks; review vendor deliverables and support knowledge transfer, demonstrations, and team enablement. - Perform other related duties as assigned. ### Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities ### Required - Strong Python and SQL skills, with demonstrated ownership of production applications from technical design through deployment and ongoing support. - Hands-on experience building LLM applications using retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, tool calling, and controlled multi-step workflows. - Experience integrating enterprise APIs and data sources, including authentication, authorization, background processing, retries, timeouts, and failure recovery. - Practical expertise in software and AI testing, Git, deployment pipelines, environment management, monitoring, and release procedures. - Understanding of secure AI application design, including sensitive-data handling, least privilege, prompt-injection risks, source attribution, and human oversight. - Ability to independently resolve ambiguous technical problems and communicate tradeoffs clearly to business stakeholders and technical partners. ### Preferred - Experience with Finance, Accounting, Internal Audit, or other control-sensitive functions, including document generation and evidence-based decision support. - Experience with enterprise cloud AI services, Microsoft Graph, Dataverse, SharePoint, Copilot Studio, or comparable platforms. - Experience building MCP servers or integrations, lightweight web applications, and reusable services; familiarity with Salesforce, Tableau, or enterprise warehouses. ### Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - Minimum of five years in software engineering, applied AI, data engineering, or automation, including demonstrated delivery of production LLM applications. 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: $198,900.00 - $298,300.00 *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* *. 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)** **.** ### 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 accommodations@f5.com. [View posting at F5](https://ffive.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/f5jobs/job/Seattle/Sr-AI-Solutions-Engineer_RP1038873) ## 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. 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