Senior Technical Marketing Engineer - AI & Distributed Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Topeka (KS)

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USD 120,000 - 215,000

Full time

14 days+

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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 Akamai's delivery and performance story, building on the platform with live configurations and demos that illustrate capabilities across AI traffic patterns and modern applications. You will partner with engineering to deepen expertise in routing, peering, and post-quantum cryptography while creating content that resonates

Qualifications

6 years of experience in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, network engineering, cloud infrastructure, CDN, content delivery, edge, or adjacent technologies.
Hands-on delivery experience with delivery stacks: HTTP/2/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching and routing fundamentals.
Understanding how AI applications change traffic patterns and infrastructure needs.
Experience with AI APIs, inference, streaming, and model endpoints.
Able to design and run defendable performance benchmarks and demos.
Experience building demos and reference architectures for technical audiences.

Responsibilities

Implement Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on on live configurations and demo environments.
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 differentiated distributed network and platform.
Collaborate with engineering to deepen knowledge of network optimization and post-quantum cryptography.
Translate AI traffic findings into practical guidance for customers and field teams.
Produce thought leadership content, including blogs, benchmark reports, and talks.
Partner with product marketing to ground AI positioning in real-world technical reality.