Senior Technical Marketing Engineer - AI & Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Austin (TX); 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 our delivery and performance story.

You will build, benchmark, and demonstrate on the platform, then translate findings into technical content for engineers, architects, and technical decision makers. In this role you will own performance benchmarks, reference architectures, and demos for AI workloads, collaborate with engineering

Qualifications

• 6+ years in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, network engineering, cloud infra, CDN, edge or AI infra.
• Hands-on with delivery stack: HTTP/2/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering.
• Understanding modern app architectures and AI-driven traffic changes.
• Comfort with AI APIs, inference, tokens, streaming and agents.
• Direct experience building or operating AI infrastructure.
• Designed and run defensible performance benchmarks.
• Built demos and reference architectures for technical audiences.
• Able to engage network engineers and developers on complex topics.
• Strong technical writing and public speaking; published work or talks.

Responsibilities

• Implements Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on, building live configurations and demo environments on real traffic.
• Designs and runs reproducible benchmarking with defensible methodology to prove performance advantages.
• Builds reference architectures and demos for modern apps and AI workloads.
• Owns the technical answer to Akamai's distributed network and content delivery platform differentiation.
• Works with engineering to develop deep knowledge of network optimization, peering, routing and cryptography.
• Explores AI traffic behavior across distributed infra and translates findings into practical guidance.
• Produces a steady cadence of technical thought leadership: blogs, benchmarks, architectures, talks.
• Partners with product marketing to ground Akamai's AI story in technical reality.

Skills

Delivery stack

HTTP/2/3

QUIC

TLS

DNS

Caching

Routing & Peering

APIs

Scripting/Automation

AI infrastructure

Benchmarking

Demo architectures

Public speaking

Technical writing

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 to be the technical proof engine behind our delivery and performance story.

You will build, benchmark, and demonstrate on the platform, then translate findings into technical content for engineers, architects, and technical decision makers. In this role you will own performance benchmarks, reference architectures, and demos for AI workloads, collaborate with engineering