Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer - AI Benchmarks

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

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. in Austin invites a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with strategic analysis.

You will manage cloud environments, run benchmarks, and translate results into actionable intelligence for business decisions, working with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers. This role requires deep cloud engineering experience and a proven ability to produce data-driven insights, battle cards, and content for Sales and

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology.
• Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshooting performance issues.
• Experience operating AI/ML inference workflows, deploying model endpoints, and measuring performance.

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

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Benchmarking framework

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. in Austin invites a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with strategic analysis.

You will manage cloud environments, run benchmarks, and translate results into actionable intelligence for business decisions, working with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers. This role requires deep cloud engineering experience and a proven ability to produce data-driven insights, battle cards, and content for Sales and