Pre-Sales Solution Architect (AI)
Explicitly mentions potential use of vibe coding and advanced AI tools (chatbots/agents) for content generation, analysis, and task automation.
About the Role
F5 is hiring a senior Pre-Sales Solution Architect (AI) for the Central and Eastern Europe region to support sales of F5 technology for AI data center infrastructures and AI applications. The role partners with AI Sales to identify opportunities, design and position F5 solutions for AI application delivery and security, and act as an evangelist and customer trust advisor across the AI ecosystem.
Job Description
Role
F5 seeks a Senior Pre-Sales Solution Architect (AI) covering the Central and Eastern Europe region to support sales of F5 technology in the context of AI Data Center Infrastructures (AI Factories) and AI applications. The role partners with AI Sales to discover strategic opportunities, design appropriate F5 solutions for customers, and champion customer requirements internally across Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and pursue strategic opportunities in AI infrastructure and AI applications where F5 technology can be embedded.
- Act as an evangelist and thought leader in the AI technology and business space; represent F5 externally (presentations, events) and internally (whitepapers, blogs, trainings).
- Collaborate with other Solution Architects and business leaders to surface common customer pain points and market trends.
- Advocate customer requirements, high-value use cases, and field-driven innovation to Product Management and Services teams.
- Provide technical and business feedback to Product Management and Product Engineering for product design, architecture, launches, and updates.
- Mentor and provide guidance to the Solution Engineering community.
How You’ll Do It / Desired Experience & Skills
- Serve as an evangelist, thought leader, and mentor in AI technology.
- Act as a liaison between Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Product Engineering.
- Demonstrated experience with strategic business opportunities and pre-sales technical engagement.
- Knowledge of AI application architectures and components including Large Language Models, orchestrators, agents, and related tools.
- Familiarity with AI infrastructure and data center network designs and reference architectures (east-west and north-south); NVIDIA reference architectures preferred.
- Understanding of AI application security challenges and storage architectures for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
- Advanced usage of AI tools (chatbots, agents) for search, analysis, generation, and task automation.
- Knowledge of cloud-native application design patterns: Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, service mesh.
- Strong business outcome-focused architecture, engineering, and operations practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of related industry experience.
- Deep knowledge of F5 solutions (experience with F5 products preferred).
- Proven ability to present technical concepts to executives and business leaders and deliver business-driven solution demonstrations.
- Experience speaking at industry/customer events and publishing technical content (whitepapers, blogs, tech tips).
- BS/BA or equivalent experience; relevant certifications are a plus.
- Willingness/ability to travel (role may require up to 50% travel).
What You’ll Get
- Competitive pay and family-friendly benefits.
- Tuition assistance for professional development and formal training/certification opportunities.
- Career growth opportunities and a culture supportive of diversity and giving back.
Notes
- Role is focused on pre-sales solution architecture for AI ecosystems and requires strong cross-functional collaboration, customer advocacy, and public-facing evangelism.