Senior Cloud AI Benchmarking Engineer

Akamai Technologies GmbH; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis, evaluating cloud and AI platforms, deploying workloads, and delivering data-driven insights to shape architecture and go-to-market strategies.

You will work with product management, architects, engineers, and solution engineers to develop benchmarking frameworks, produce battle cards, and validate marketing claims while helping roadmap discussions.

Qualifications

• Over 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales.
• Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshooting performance issues.
• Experience with AI/ML inference workflows, model endpoints, and cost-aware performance assessment.
• Ability to design reproducible benchmarks and present data-driven results.
• Produce technical content understandable to engineers and stakeholders, with clear supporting data.
• Demonstrates credibility and transparency in competitive intelligence reporting.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results in reproducible formats.
• Develop and manage a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads, standardizing tests, models, and KPIs for provider comparisons (e.g., Llama, Mistral).
• Assess competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience while documenting product performance.
• Produce battle cards, technical comparison guides, and content for Sales and Presales grounded in verified data.
• Collaborate with Product Management to analyze cloud products, provide actionable insights, and suggest roadmap items.
• Review and fact-check differentiation claims in marketing materials, sales decks, and analyst briefings.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

AI/ML inference

Benchmarking

Sales enablement

Data-driven insights

Stakeholder comms

Honesty/transparency

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis, evaluating cloud and AI platforms, deploying workloads, and delivering data-driven insights to shape architecture and go-to-market strategies.

You will work with product management, architects, engineers, and solution engineers to develop benchmarking frameworks, produce battle cards, and validate marketing claims while helping roadmap discussions.