Solution Architect (AI)

F5 is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to support sales and technical strategy in AI Data Center Infrastructures and AI Applications, primarily in Southern Europe. The role involves collaborating with sales teams, providing technical expertise, and advocating for AI solutions within the context of application delivery and security.

Location: Southern Europe

Responsibilities

• Identify and work on strategic opportunities within AI Infrastructure and AI applications technology area and provide technical expertise to embed F5 technology within these opportunities.
• Play the role of an evangelist and thought leader in the AI technology and business area.
• Collaborate with other Solution Architects and internal business leaders to share ideas, identify common customer pain points and industry trends, and identify appropriate F5 solutions.
• Advocate for customer needs, high-value everyday use cases, and innovative ideas from the field with product management and services teams.
• Work closely with our internal Product Management and services teams and provide technical and business feedback for product design, architecture, launches, and updates that would benefit our customers.
• Provide mentorship as needed to the Solution Engineering community in the organization.

Requirements

• Experience playing the role of an evangelist, thought leader, and mentor in the field of AI.
• Liaison between Sales and Marketing, Product Management, Product Engineering.
• Experience working with strategic business opportunities.
• Experience in AI best practices, technology landscape, and ecosystem.
• Knowledge of AI application architectures and components, including Large Language Models, Orchestrators, Agents, and Tools, along with a willingness to stay up-to-date with market and technological developments within the evolving AI landscape.
• Knowledge of AI infrastructure and data center network designs and reference architectures, both for east west and north south. Knowledge of Nvidia reference architectures will be preferred.
• Knowledge of current AI App security ecosystem and challenges.
• Knowledge of Storage technologies, designing architectures for efficient data delivery, in the context of AI training, fine tuning and inference.
• Advanced usage of AI tools (chatbots, agents…) for content search, content analysis, content generation, task automation and potentially vibe coding.
• Knowledge of cloud-native application design patterns (Kubernetes, APIs, micro-services, service mesh, and more).
• Advanced knowledge of business outcome-focused architecture, engineering, and operations practices

Benefits

• While we encourage remote/virtual meetings, the role could require travel up to 50% of the time.
• This is a self-driven role, so career growth and development are available at every career stage.
• Competitive pay, family-friendly benefits, and cool perks.
• Tuition assistance for professional development.
• Culture of giving back, strong diversity and inclusion interest groups.

Additional Information

• 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.