Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Distributed Networking, Content Delivery & AI

Role Overview

As a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, you will be responsible for 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. You will design and run reproducible benchmarking with documented, defensible methodology to substantiate Akamai’s performance advantages with evidence, including evaluating latency, throughput, routing, and cost considerations for AI traffic. You will build reference architectures and demos for modern applications and AI workloads, including AI inference APIs, streaming responses, agent interactions, and globally distributed applications.

What You Will Do

You will be responsible for 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. You will design and run reproducible benchmarking with documented, defensible methodology to substantiate Akamai’s performance advantages with evidence, including evaluating latency, throughput, routing, and cost considerations for AI traffic.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be a good fit for this role if you 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. You will be comfortable working with AI APIs and concepts such as inference, tokens, streaming responses, model endpoints, and agents. You will have direct experience building or operating AI infrastructure and have designed and run performance benchmarks with a methodology you can defend publicly.

Requirements

• 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 experience with delivery stack: HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering fundamentals, APIs, and the tooling used to measure them
• Working scripting or automation skills
• Understanding of modern application architectures and AI applications
• Experience building or operating AI infrastructure
• Design and run performance benchmarks with a methodology you can defend publicly
• Experience building demos and reference architectures that technical audiences used and trusted
• Excellent technical writing and public speaking skills

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation (in the form of PTO)
• Sick time
• Family friendly benefits including parental leave
• Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness