Solutions Engineer — AI & Data Science Specialist
F5 Networks · Field-VA
About this role
F5 Networks is hiring a mid-level Data Scientist based in Field-VA. The posting calls out experience with Python, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Security. Compensation is listed at $123,500–$185,300 per year.
- Role
- Data Scientist
- Function
- data engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Field-VA
- Posted
- May 14, 2026
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Job description
from F5 Networks careersAt 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.
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 results—particularly 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 don’t)
The tradeoffs between false positives and false negatives
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