Senior Cloud and AI Competitive Benchmarking Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

PTO (paid time off)

Equity awards

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis in cloud environments.

You will deploy workloads, run benchmarks, and translate findings into actionable intelligence for strategy and go-to-market decisions. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to shape cloud product direction, review differentiations in marketing materials, and provide data-driven insights

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
• Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshooting performance issues independently
• Experience with AI/ML inference workflows, deploying model endpoints, measuring performance, and understanding cost models

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

AI/ML inference

Benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Benchmark framework development

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis in cloud environments.

You will deploy workloads, run benchmarks, and translate findings into actionable intelligence for strategy and go-to-market decisions. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to shape cloud product direction, review differentiations in marketing materials, and provide data-driven insights