Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer

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.

As a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer , you will be responsible for:

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

To be successful in this role you will: