Senior Tech Marketing Engineer: AI & Distributed Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Hartford (CT); 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 to be the technical proof engine behind the company’s delivery and performance story.

You will build, benchmark, and demonstrate on the Akamai platform, then translate learnings into technical content for engineers, architects, and decision makers. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, AI patterns, and public thought leadership.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, network engineering, cloud infrastructure, CDN, content delivery, edge, AI infrastructure or adjacent technologies.

Responsibilities

• Implement Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on, building and maintaining live configurations and demo environments that show real capabilities on real traffic, including evolving AI patterns.
• Design and run reproducible benchmarking with documented methodology to substantiate Akamai's performance advantages with evidence.
• Build reference architectures and demos for modern applications and AI workloads including AI inference APIs and streaming responses.
• Own the technical answer to what makes Akamai's distributed network and content delivery platform differentiated, and how it applies as AI changes traffic and architectures.
• Work with engineering to build deep knowledge of network optimization, peering, route optimization, post-quantum cryptography, and performance.
• Translate AI traffic findings into practical guidance for customers, developers, and field teams.
• Produce a cadence of technical thought leadership including blogs, benchmark reports, reference architectures, talks, and demos.
• Partner with product marketing to ground positioning and Akamai's evolving AI story in technical reality.

Skills

Technical marketing

Hands-on engineering

AI infrastructure

Public speaking

Technical writing

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree (technical)

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking, Content Delivery, and AI to be the technical proof engine behind the company’s delivery and performance story.

You will build, benchmark, and demonstrate on the Akamai platform, then translate learnings into technical content for engineers, architects, and decision makers. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, AI patterns, and public thought leadership.