Senior Tech Marketing Engineer, AI & Distributed Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Salem (OR); 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 be the technical proof engine behind delivery and performance claims, building on real traffic and turning findings into content for engineers and decision makers.

You will own hands-on delivery, benchmarking, reference architectures, and demos, collaborating with engineering and marketing to advance Akamai's AI traffic story and performance advantages.

Qualifications

• Hands-on with delivery stack: HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering fundamentals, APIs and tooling.
• Ability to script or automate workflows for demos and benchmarks.
• Experience with AI APIs, inference, tokens, streaming, model endpoints and agents.
• Experience building or operating AI infrastructure.
• Proven ability to design defensible performance benchmarks and publish results.
• Proven track record building demos and reference architectures for technical audiences.
• Excellent technical writing and public speaking skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement Akamai delivery and performance products in live configurations and demos.
• Design and run reproducible benchmarks with defensible methodology and documented results.
• Build reference architectures and demos for modern applications and AI workloads.
• Own technical messaging on Akamai's distributed network and AI capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering to deepen knowledge of network optimization, peering, route optimization, and post-quantum cryptography.
• Translate AI traffic observations into practical guidance for customers and field teams.
• Produce regular technical content and talks aligned with events and market needs.
• Partner with product marketing to ground positioning and evolving AI storytelling.

Skills

Hands-on delivery stack

HTTP/2 & HTTP/3

QUIC

TLS

DNS

APIs

Scripting

Automation

AI APIs

Inference

Streaming responses

Model endpoints

Agents

AI infrastructure

Benchmarks

Demos

Technical writing

Public speaking

Network peering

Route optimization

Post quantum cryptography

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking, Content Delivery, and AI. You will be the technical proof engine behind delivery and performance claims, building on real traffic and turning findings into content for engineers and decision makers.

You will own hands-on delivery, benchmarking, reference architectures, and demos, collaborating with engineering and marketing to advance Akamai's AI traffic story and performance advantages.