Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Sick leave

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with rigorous benchmarking. You will evaluate cloud and AI platforms, deploy workloads, and document reproducible results to inform strategy.

You will work with product, sales, and engineering teams to translate data into actionable insights, influence roadmaps, and ensure accurate differentiation across materials and briefs.

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology.
• Demonstrated ability to provision cloud infrastructure, configure networking, deploy containers, and troubleshoot performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results.
• Develop and manage a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads, standardizing tests, models, and KPIs for provider comparisons.
• Assess competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience; document 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 and recommend roadmap items addressing customer challenges.
• Review differentiation claims in marketing materials, decks, and analyst briefings.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

AI/ML inference

Benchmarking

Data-driven insights

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Orchestration tools

APIs

Job description

Would you like to use your hands on technical expertise to help influence Akamai's Cloud evolution?

Would you like to work cross-functionally with product management and sales engineers?

Join our Competitive Intelligence Team

This position combines technical marketing and competitive analysis. Responsibilities include managing cloud environments, running benchmarks, and creating data-driven insights for strategy development. Collaboration occurs with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to influence architecture and go-to-market strategies through direct technical engagement.

Partner with the best

Akamai needs practitioners who can deploy competitor products, benchmark performance, evaluate architectures, and translate findings into actionable intelligence for the business.

As a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer , you will be responsible for:

• 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

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 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
• Demonstrate expertise in cloud infrastructure by provisioning instances, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshoot performance issues independently
• Operate AI/ML inference workflows, deploy model endpoints, measure performance metrics, and understand cost models
• Design reproducible tests, control variables, and present honest results using benchmarking methodology to provide accurate, data-driven performance insights
• Produce technical content understandable to engineers and actionable for stakeholders, while effectively presenting findings to diverse professional audiences
• Demonstrate honesty by presenting findings transparently, ensuring credibility and trust in competitive intelligence for effective stakeholder engagement

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $139,300 - $250,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

Akamai Technologies is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.