Sr. Tech Marketing Engineer for AI & Distributed Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Augusta (ME)

On-site

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 to be the technical proof engine behind Akamai's delivery and performance story.

You will build, benchmark, and demonstrate on the platform, then translate findings into content for engineers, architects, and technical decision makers. As AI applications become more distributed, you will create demos and reference architectures, work with engineering on optimization,

Qualifications

Have 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, and a Bachelor's degree in a technical field or its equivalent.
Hands-on with the delivery stack: HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering fundamentals, APIs, and the tooling used to measure them, with working scripting or automation skills.
Understand modern application architectures and have an interest in how AI applications change traffic patterns, infrastructure requirements, and the relationship between applications, models, networks, and users.
Be comfortable working with AI APIs and concepts such as inference, tokens, streaming responses, model endpoints, and agents.
Have direct experience building or operating AI infrastructure.
Have designed and run performance benchmarks with a methodology you can defend publicly, and know the difference between a result and a cherry-pick.
Have built demos and reference architectures that technical audiences used and trusted.
Be comfortable engaging network engineers on peering, route optimization, performance, and post quantum cryptography, while also being able to work with developers and architects building modern and AI-powered applicaitons.
Possess excellent techincal writing and public speaking skills, with published work, demos, or talks you are proud to share

Responsibilities

Implementing 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
Designing and running reproducible benchmarking with documented, defensible methodology to substantiate Akamai's performance advantages with evidence, including evaluating latency, thorughput, routing, and cost considerations for AI traffic
Building reference architectures and demos for modern applications and AI workloads, including AI inference APIs, streaming responses, agent interactions, and globally distributed applications
Owning the technical answer to what makes Akamai's distributed network and content delivery platform genuinely differentiated, and how those capabilities apply as AI changes internet traffic and application architectures
Working directly with engineering to build deep knowledge of network optimization, carrier and telco peering, route optimization, post quantum cryptography, developer experience, performance, and the networking patterns emerging and around AI inference and agents
Exploring how AI traffic behaves across distributed infrastructure and translating those findings into practical guidance for customers, developers, architects, and Akamai field teams
Producing a consistent cadence of technical thought leadership, including deep-dive blogs, benchmark reports, reference architectures, conference talks, and demos, timed to global and industry events so Akamai shows up with proof when the market is paying attention
Partnering with product marketing to ground positioning, messaging, competitive content, and Akamai's evolving AI story in technically reality