Senior Tech Marketing Engineer: Distributed Networking & AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking, Content Delivery, and AI to become the technical proof engine behind Akamai's delivery and performance story.

You will build live configurations and demos on the platform, turning learnings into content for engineers and decision makers. You will lead benchmarks, reference architectures, and deep-dive content, collaborating with engineering and product marketing to advance Akamai's AI story and

Qualifications

• 6 years of relevant experience in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, or adjacent fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or its equivalent.
• Hands-on with delivery stack: HTTP/2/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering.
• Scripting or automation skills.
• Understanding of modern application architectures and AI traffic patterns.
• Experience with AI APIs, inference, tokens, streaming.
• Experience building or operating AI infrastructure.
• Ability to design and run defensible performance benchmarks.
• Experience building demos and reference architectures.
• Excellent technical writing and public speaking skills.

Responsibilities

• Implementing Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on with live configurations and demos.
• Designing and running reproducible benchmarks with documented methodology.
• Building reference architectures and demos for modern applications and AI workloads.
• Owning the technical answer to Akamai's differentiators for AI traffic.
• Working with engineering to deepen knowledge of network optimization and cryptography.
• Translating AI traffic findings into practical guidance for customers and field teams.
• Producing regular technical thought leadership (blogs, benchmarks, talks).
• Partnering with product marketing to ground positioning in reality.

Skills

HTTP/2/3

QUIC

TLS

DNS

Caching

Routing & Peering

APIs

Scripting/Automation

AI infrastructure

Performance benchmarking

Demos & reference architectures

Technical writing

Public speaking

AI APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking, Content Delivery, and AI to become the technical proof engine behind Akamai's delivery and performance story.

You will build live configurations and demos on the platform, turning learnings into content for engineers and decision makers. You will lead benchmarks, reference architectures, and deep-dive content, collaborating with engineering and product marketing to advance Akamai's AI story and