Senior Hardware Engineer - Cloud GPU Server Platforms

Akamai Career Site; United States; On-site; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai's Hardware Engineering team is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to lead platform development for compute and GPU servers, partnering with OEM/ODM suppliers to deliver scalable cloud‑ready platforms.

You will own requirements, drive NPI processes from EVT through MP, and supervise bring‑up, validation, and performance tuning across power, thermal, and reliability domains. Office in Cambridge, US-based, with strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Foundation in server architecture and board-level design/debug; comfortable with low-level buses and tools.
• Experience with platform validation (power/thermal, signal integrity, PCIe/NVMe qualification, stress testing).
• Strong Linux and scripting (Python, Bash) skills; ability to automate tests and parse logs.
• Vendor management experience and ability to translate requirements into clear specs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to groups.

Responsibilities

• Owning platform development for compute and GPU servers.
• Defining requirements, review schematics/layouts, guide DFM, and drive platform NPI from EVT DVT PVT MP.
• Leading bring-up and debug of boards and systems (power, thermal, storage, networking, manageability)
• Developing and executing validation plans, root-cause issues across HW/FW/SW.
• Collaborating with partners to balance performance, efficiency, supply continuity, and TCO.
• Managing component firmware/BIOS/OpenBMC feature sets (performance/power/thermal, secure boot, provisioning, telemetry)
• Qualifying key technologies: PCIe Gen5/Gen6 GPUs, CPUs, NICs, DPUs, NVMe drives, DRAM.
• Designing and validating GPU platforms including PCIe/NVLink/UALink topologies, power/thermal envelopes, and reliability considerations for GPUs.

Skills

Linux scripting

Python

Bash

Vendor management

Communication skills

Oscilloscopes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Job description

Akamai's Hardware Engineering team is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to lead platform development for compute and GPU servers, partnering with OEM/ODM suppliers to deliver scalable cloud‑ready platforms.

You will own requirements, drive NPI processes from EVT through MP, and supervise bring‑up, validation, and performance tuning across power, thermal, and reliability domains. Office in Cambridge, US-based, with strong collaboration across teams.