Senior Tech Marketing Engineer: AI & Distributed Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking, Content Delivery, and AI. You will prove capabilities on real traffic, build live demos, and translate findings into technical content for engineers, architects, and decision makers.

You will design scalable benchmarks, own performance narratives, and collaborate with product marketing to ground Akamai's AI story in reality. This role combines hands-on tech with strategic messaging.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, network engineering, cloud infrastructure, CDN, content delivery, edge or AI infra.
• Bachelor’s in a technical field or equivalent required.
• Hands-on with delivery stacks and performance measurement tooling.

Responsibilities

• Implement Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on with live configurations and real traffic.
• Design and run reproducible benchmarking with defensible methodology.
• Build reference architectures and demos for modern apps and AI workloads.
• Own the technical answer to Akamai's differentiators in distributed networks and AI traffic.
• Collaborate with engineering to deepen knowledge of network optimization, peering, routing, and post-quantum cryptography.
• Translate AI traffic lessons into practical guidance for customers and field teams.
• Produce technical thought leadership, including blogs, benchmarks, and talks.

Skills

Technical marketing

Network engineering

AI infrastructure

Scripting / automation

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

HTTP/2

HTTP/3

QUIC

TLS

DNS

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking, Content Delivery, and AI. You will prove capabilities on real traffic, build live demos, and translate findings into technical content for engineers, architects, and decision makers.

You will design scalable benchmarks, own performance narratives, and collaborate with product marketing to ground Akamai's AI story in reality. This role combines hands-on tech with strategic messaging.