Senior Cloud & AI Competitive Intelligence Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Frankfort (KY)

On-site

USD 139,000 - 251,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Paid time off

Job summary

A Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer at Akamai Technologies, Inc. works at the intersection of technical marketing and competitive analysis to influence cloud evolution and go-to-market strategies.

You will benchmark cloud and AI platforms, deploy workloads, and generate data-driven insights used by product, engineering, and sales teams. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to translate findings into actionable intelligence and robust

Qualifications

12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology.
Ability to provision infrastructure, configure networking, deploy containers, and troubleshoot performance issues.
Experience operating AI/ML inference workflows and presenting data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

Conducting technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provisioning infrastructure and measuring performance.
Developing and managing a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads with standardized tests and KPIs.
Assessing competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience.
Producing battle cards, technical comparison guides, and content grounded in verified data for Sales and Presales.
Collaborating with Product Management to analyze cloud products and recommend roadmap items.
Reviewing differentiation claims in marketing materials and sales decks for accuracy.