Senior AI & Cloud Benchmarking Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 139,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is looking for a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis.

You will partner with architects, product managers, and sales engineers to evaluate cloud architectures, deploy workloads, and document results for actionable insights. You will build benchmarking frameworks for AI inference, produce battle cards for Sales, and help shape roadmap items that address customer challenges.

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology and a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate expertise in cloud infrastructure by provisioning instances, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshoot performance issues independently.
• Operate AI/ML inference workflows, deploy model endpoints, measure performance metrics, and understand cost models.
• Design reproducible tests, control variables, and present honest results using benchmarking methodology to provide accurate, data-driven performance insights.
• Produce technical content understandable to engineers and actionable for stakeholders, while effectively presenting findings to diverse professional audiences.
• Demonstrate honesty by presenting findings transparently, ensuring credibility and trust in competitive intelligence for effective stakeholder engagement

Responsibilities

• Conducting technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results in reproducible formats
• Developing and manage a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads, standardizing tests, models, and KPIs for provider comparisons (e.g., Llama, Mistral)
• Assessing competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience while documenting actual product performance during deployment
• Producing battle cards, technical comparison guides, and content for Sales and Presales that are grounded in verified data
• Collaborating with Product Management to analyze cloud products, provide actionable insights, and recommend roadmap items to address customer challenges effectively
• Reviewing and fact-checking differentiation claims in marketing materials, sales decks, and analyst briefings

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

Benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is looking for a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis.

You will partner with architects, product managers, and sales engineers to evaluate cloud architectures, deploy workloads, and document results for actionable insights. You will build benchmarking frameworks for AI inference, produce battle cards for Sales, and help shape roadmap items that address customer challenges.