Senior Cloud Intelligence Engineer — AI & Benchmarking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 139,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Equity awards

ESPP

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis and to drive data-driven strategy across cloud environments.

You will run benchmarks, document results, and translate findings into actionable intelligence for architecture and go-to-market efforts. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to influence product direction, validate claims, and deliver credible

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, or presales within enterprise technology.
• Experience in enterprise technology and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to provision cloud infrastructure and troubleshoot performance issues.

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 grounded in verified data.
• Collaborating with Product Management to analyze cloud products, provide actionable insights, and recommend roadmap items to address customer challenges.
• Reviewing and fact-checking differentiation claims in marketing materials, sales decks, and analyst briefings.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

12 years experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis and to drive data-driven strategy across cloud environments.

You will run benchmarks, document results, and translate findings into actionable intelligence for architecture and go-to-market efforts. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to influence product direction, validate claims, and deliver credible