Lead AI Inference Platform Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K

PTO / Paid time off

ESPP program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to guide the design and implementation of critical AI inference platform components.

You will drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and optimize containerized AI workloads across regions to deliver OpenAI-compatible endpoints. You will lead collaborative efforts with cross-functional teams to define requirements, set platform standards, and ensure operational excellence in distributed systems and cloud-native

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Proficiency in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AI inference, model serving, or LLM deployment with knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton).

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and implementation of critical platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Driving technical decisions for your domain, selecting appropriate tools, frameworks, and approaches for AI inference workloads.
• Mentoring and guiding engineers on the team through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving.
• Implementing and optimizing containerized AI workloads with hardware-specific optimizations and integrating inference frameworks at scale.
• Collaborating across teams to define technical requirements, contribute to platform standards, and ensure operational excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud services

Platform engineering

AI inference

Mentoring

Code reviews

API design

Observability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

TensorRT

vLLM

TorchServe

Triton

REST/gRPC

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to guide the design and implementation of critical AI inference platform components.

You will drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and optimize containerized AI workloads across regions to deliver OpenAI-compatible endpoints. You will lead collaborative efforts with cross-functional teams to define requirements, set platform standards, and ensure operational excellence in distributed systems and cloud-native