Senior Cloud AI Benchmarking Engineer

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

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to drive technical marketing and competitive analysis across cloud environments. You will benchmark AI and cloud platforms, document results reproducibly, and translate findings into actionable insights for strategy and go-to-market decisions.

You will work with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to influence architecture and roadmaps, while ensuring accuracy of differentiation claims in

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology
• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
• Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure, networking, containers, and performance troubleshooting

Responsibilities

• 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 with defined KPIs
• Assess competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPUs, orchestration tools, and developer experience during deployment
• 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, decks, and analyst briefings

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to drive technical marketing and competitive analysis across cloud environments. You will benchmark AI and cloud platforms, document results reproducibly, and translate findings into actionable insights for strategy and go-to-market decisions.

You will work with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to influence architecture and roadmaps, while ensuring accuracy of differentiation claims in