Principal Performance Engineer Lead

United States Remote April 8, 2026 Workday

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 accuracy—applying techniques like quantization, speculative decoding, and hardware-aware scheduling to maximize throughput and minimize latency. You will collaborate closely with hardware performance engineers to deliver end-to-end optimization.

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  • Akamai is one of the original distributed-systems companies on the internet and still operates at a scale very few engineering organizations ever encounter, which makes it a uniquely strong place to deepen networking, security, and reliability skills.
  • The company has three intertwined business lines: content delivery, security, and Connected Cloud (post-Linode), and your career mobility inside Akamai is strongest if you understand how all three fit together.
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