Principal Architect

Akamai•United States,

22h•$200,000 - $360,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Shape the future of our cutting-edge products. As Principal Architect, you will develop software and systems for evaluating and optimizing the performance of real-world AI applications.

Requirements

15 years or more of relevant experience and Bachelors degree in computer science, or related field
Demonstrate experience in development large scale software systems
Demonstrate experience with AI applications such as inference engines, clustering systems, and agentic frameworks
Demonstrate experience in benchmarking AI systems across a range of metrics
Possess working knowledge of distributed systems
Have experience in software development life cycle including in the Unix/Linux environment
Have a good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.

Responsibilities

Identifying AI models of interest in various domains (LLMs, imaging, video, voice, etc.)
Packaging the software systems for deployment in various systems (Akamai-internal systems and third-party inference platforms)
Deploying the software systems, as well as managing that deployment
Identifying benchmarks that yield relevant and actionable insight into the performance and cost-effectiveness of each of the model/platform combinations
Running the selected benchmarks to produce comparison data between the various model/platform combinations
Optimizing the configuration and runtime systems of various models to improve benchmark metrics over time
Researching and developing reference configurations for new technologies such as MCP servers, agentic frameworks, caching, distributed inference, etc