Senior Performance Engineer – Akamai Inference Cloud

EngineerEngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 5,001-10,000H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Poland

Posted

79 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor DegreeEnglishDistributed Systems

Job Description

Senior Performance Engineer – Akamai Inference Cloud

Akamai Technologies

• Leading benchmarking and profiling of AI models and inference workloads across different hardware configurations, measuring latency. • Researching and implementing model optimization techniques including quantization, pruning, distillation, and hardware-specific optimizations. • Optimizing and refining inference frameworks and infrastructure to enhance performance, collaborating with TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton, and related platforms. • Owning the performance baselines and regression monitoring strategy for the platform, and driving resolution of systemic and complex performance issues. • Leading technical efforts across engineering teams, resolving inefficiencies, designing optimization strategies, verifying enhancements, and guiding engineers in performance-focused approaches.

Job Requirements

  • Have very good experience in performance engineering with hands-on expertise in AI/ML model optimization and inference performance tuning.
  • Apply expertise in inference optimization techniques like quantization, model compilation, hardware acceleration, and ML compilers to achieve measurable production improvements.
  • Show proficiency with GPU optimization and understanding of memory hierarchies and techniques to maximize hardware utilization.
  • Have experience with profiling and benchmarking tools for AI workloads, identifying performance bottlenecks in distributed systems.
  • Exhibit effective communication abilities, aligning engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to shape and guide technical direction.
  • Demonstrate problem-solving skills with ability to analyze performance data.
  • Possess knowledge of distributed inference and model parallelism techniques.
  • Have experience with cost optimization for compute-intensive workloads.

Benefits

  • Your health
  • Your finances
  • Your family
  • Your time at work
  • Your time pursuing other endeavors

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