Senior Technical Marketing Engineer: AI-Driven Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Phoenix (AZ)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 215,000

Full time

10 days ago

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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, benchmarking, and demonstrating on the platform with real traffic.

You will translate findings into technical content for engineers, architects, and technical decision makers, producing blogs, reference architectures, demos, and talks to support Akamai's AI-driven strategy.

Qualifications

6 years of relevant experience in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, network engineering, cloud infrastructure, CDN, content delivery, networking, edge, AI infrastructure or adjacent technologies.
Bachelor's degree in a technical field or its equivalent.
Hands-on with delivery stack: HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering fundamentals, APIs, and tooling.

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 emerging AI application patterns.
Design and run reproducible benchmarking with documented methodology to substantiate Akamai's performance advantages with evidence, evaluating latency, throughput, routing, and cost for AI traffic.
Build reference architectures and demos for modern applications and AI workloads, including AI inference APIs, streaming responses, agent interactions, and globally distributed applications.
Own the technical answer to what makes Akamai's distributed network and content delivery platform genuinely differentiated, and how those capabilities apply as AI changes traffic.