Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

5d•$139,300 - $250,700

About The Position

This position combines technical marketing and competitive analysis. Responsibilities include managing cloud environments, running benchmarks, and creating data-driven insights for strategy development. Collaboration occurs with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to influence architecture and go-to-market strategies through direct technical engagement. Akamai needs practitioners who can deploy competitor products, benchmark performance, evaluate architectures, and translate findings into actionable intelligence for the business.

Requirements

12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
Demonstrate expertise in cloud infrastructure by provisioning instances, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshoot performance issues independently
Operate AI/ML inference workflows, deploy model endpoints, measure performance metrics, and understand cost models
Design reproducible tests, control variables, and present honest results using benchmarking methodology to provide accurate, data-driven performance insights
Produce technical content understandable to engineers and actionable for stakeholders, while effectively presenting findings to diverse professional audiences
Demonstrate honesty by presenting findings transparently, ensuring credibility and trust in competitive intelligence for effective stakeholder engagement

Responsibilities

Conducting technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results in reproducible formats
Developing and manage a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads, standardizing tests, models, and KPIs for provider comparisons (e.g., Llama, Mistral)
Assessing competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience while documenting actual product performance during deployment
Producing battle cards, technical comparison guides, and content for Sales and Presales that are grounded in verified data
Collaborating with Product Management to analyze cloud products, provide actionable insights, and recommend roadmap items to address customer challenges effectively
Reviewing and fact-checking differentiation claims in marketing materials, sales decks, and analyst briefings