Marketing Forward Deployment Engineer

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.

F5 isseekingan innovative andhighly-skilled Marketing Forward-Deployed Engineer to join our Marketing Technologies team within ourDigitalorganization. This unique role is designed for a tech-savvy marketer with a strong software development background who can bridge the gap betweencutting-edgeartificial intelligence (AI) technologies and real-world marketing workflows. The ideal candidate will help transform our marketingworkflows by infusing AI into pivotal processes such as content creation, campaign optimization, publishing, analytics, and more.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with marketing teams across content creation,brand, vertical content, SEO, analytics, and publishing functions toidentifyopportunities for AI integration.

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications and intelligent agents tailored to marketing use cases.

• Enhance marketing workflows through automation and data-driveninsightsleveragingadvanced AI tools and techniques.

• Partner with engineers, designers, and data scientists to accelerateadoptionof AI technologies within the marketing organization.

• Build prototypes for customized AI solutions and test viability within marketing operations such as content and messaging generation, keyword optimization, predictive analytics, etc.

• Drive strategic discussions with marketing leadership about unlocking new possibilities using AI-driven marketing technologies.

• Stay current with emerging marketing technologies and software platforms, especiallywith regard tointegrated AI tools and systems. Familiarity with Gemini Enterprise Platformand Antigravityisa plus.

• Troubleshoot technical issues, conduct gap analyses, and deliver tech-focused solutions that empower marketers to achieve better efficiency and effectiveness.

• Provide hands-on technical training and workshops to marketers, ensuring the team understands and embraces AI-based tools and practices.

• Evaluatenew marketingtechnologies for potential integration into F5’s stack and contribute to the evolution of the marketing technology roadmap.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Marketing Expertise:

• Proven hands-onexpertisein marketing workflows including content creation, campaign strategy, analytics, SEO, and publishing.

• In-depth understanding of the business and technical challenges faced by marketers.

Technical Skills:

• Minimum of 7 years of software development experience, with a demonstrated ability to write, debug, and optimize complex code.

• Proficiencyin developing AI-powered applications, intelligent agents, and workflowsleveragingtechnologies such as natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), automation frameworks, and big data platforms.

• Deep knowledge of marketing technology platforms such as CRM systems, campaign management tools, DMPs, analytics tools, content management systems (CMS), and SEO tools.

• Experience with API integrations, cloud platforms, and software architecture design.

AI Proficiency:

• LLM Orchestration & Agent Architectures: Hands-on experiencebuilding anddeploying autonomous agentic workflows and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines using modern orchestration frameworks (e.g.,LangChain,LlamaIndex,LangGraph, or similar)

• API & LLM Integration: Strongproficiencyconsuming, securing, andoptimizingenterprise LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini Enterprise, orsimiliar).Experience insetting up guardrails.

• AI-Driven Marketing Use Cases: Practical understanding of applying generative AI for automated content generation, semantic SEO/GEO optimization, predictive campaign insights, and campaign workflow automation

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate marketing challenges into technical solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to drive projects from concept to completion.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of the Gemini Enterprise Platform.

• Familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and their application to marketing problems.

• ExperienceleveragingAI tooptimizemarketing workflows and their orchestration.

Work Environment

The Marketing Forward-Deployed Engineer will report to the Director of Marketing Technologies and work in close collaboration with cross-functional marketing teams. This is a hybrid role that requires leadership insights, marketingexperienceand hands-on technical development to bring innovative solutions to F5’s marketing workflows.

Join us at F5 and lead the AI transformation in marketing workflows thatdrivesimpactful business results!

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.

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 [email protected].