Remote Senior AI Software Engineer – Edge, Validation & Safety

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 138,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Company holidays

Vacation (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Cambridge, MA (remote allowed from anywhere in the United States).

The role focuses on building and operating systems for model validation, quantization, and safety, including guardrails, routing, and evaluation frameworks. Requirements include a Master’s degree and 1 year of related experience, with strong skills in TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, Linux, Python, and web debugging.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS/CE/Analytics or related field.
• 1 year of engineering experience in the offered role or closely related role.
• Experience with TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS; Linux Bash/Shell; Python scripting; Web performance and caching troubleshooting; SSL/TLS & secure web delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate model validation pipelines and security scanning for quality, correctness and vulnerabilities.
• Implement quantization, pruning and optimization to reduce model footprint and improve latency across hardware.
• Design guardrails and content-safety systems to enforce policies and mitigate jail breaking and prompt injection risks.
• Develop model routing and prompt management infra to support intelligent request handling across variants and A/B testing.

Skills

TCP/IP

HTTP/HTTPS

DNS

Linux Bash/Shell

Python scripting

Web performance & caching

JavaScript/HTML

Global Traffic Routing

Education

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS/CE/Analytics

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Cambridge, MA (remote allowed from anywhere in the United States).

The role focuses on building and operating systems for model validation, quantization, and safety, including guardrails, routing, and evaluation frameworks. Requirements include a Master’s degree and 1 year of related experience, with strong skills in TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, Linux, Python, and web debugging.