Senior AI & Cloud Competitive Intelligence Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Olympia (WA); In loco; USD 139.000 - 251.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to drive technical benchmarking and competitive analysis for cloud and AI platforms.

You will deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results to influence architecture and go-to-market strategies. You will partner with product management, sales engineering, and architects to translate findings into actionable insights, develop battle cards, and ensure credibility in differentiation claims.

Competenze

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology.
• Demonstrate expertise in cloud infrastructure by provisioning instances, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshooting performance issues.
• Operate AI/ML inference workflows, deploy model endpoints, measure performance metrics, and understand cost models.
• Design reproducible tests and benchmarks to provide data-driven performance insights.
• Produce technical content understandable to engineers and stakeholders with credible results.
• Present findings transparently to stakeholders to maintain trust in competitive intelligence.

Mansioni

• Conduct technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, and document results reproducibly.
• Develop and manage a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads and provider comparisons.
• Assess competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, and orchestration tools with documented performance.
• Produce battle cards, technical comparison guides, and content for Sales and Presales based on verified data.
• Collaborate with Product Management to analyze cloud products and inform roadmap decisions.
• Review and fact-check differentiation claims in marketing materials and sales decks.

Conoscenze

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

AI/ML inference

Benchmarking

Data analysis

Technical writing

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Strumenti

Cloud platforms

Descrizione del lavoro

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to drive technical benchmarking and competitive analysis for cloud and AI platforms.

You will deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results to influence architecture and go-to-market strategies. You will partner with product management, sales engineering, and architects to translate findings into actionable insights, develop battle cards, and ensure credibility in differentiation claims.