Principal Performance Engineer Lead

Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Full-time United States, United States other-general
Posted:
June 10, 2026
Location:
United States, United States, United States

Job Description

**Do you want to push the boundaries of AI inference speed and accuracy at global scale?**

**Are you passionate about optimizing how models perform in production serving environments?**

**Join the Akamai Inference Cloud Team!**

The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We design and operate AI platforms that enable customers to run models with unmatched performance, compliance, and economics. The Model Intelligence & Lifecycle team owns the end-to-end model lifecyclefrom validation and security scanning through quantization, optimization, and monitoring. We ensure every model meets rigorous standards for quality, safety, and performance.

**Partner with the best**

As an ML Performance Engineer, you will optimize inference performance across the Akamai Inference Cloud. Your focus will be at the intersection of speed and accuracyapplying techniques like quantization, speculative decoding, and hardware-aware sch...

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: United States, United States
Posted: June 10, 2026
Deadline: June 14, 2026