Remote AI Benchmarking Engineer: Performance Economics

Akka; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Professional development

Flexible remote work

Work-life balance

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Akka is seeking an Applied AI Research Engineer focused on benchmarking, cost modeling, and decision-grade calculators to guide what we build and what we claim publicly.

You will operate at the intersection of systems engineering, inference-stack depth, and rigorous experimental design, measuring token economics, routing costs, and GPU-serving performance. This is hands-on work across data curation, evaluation, and deployment, remote in NA or Europe.

Job description

Akka is seeking an Applied AI Research Engineer focused on benchmarking, cost modeling, and decision-grade calculators to guide what we build and what we claim publicly.

You will operate at the intersection of systems engineering, inference-stack depth, and rigorous experimental design, measuring token economics, routing costs, and GPU-serving performance. This is hands-on work across data curation, evaluation, and deployment, remote in NA or Europe.