10 hours ago
Base Salary
$138k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate systems for model validation, quantization, and safety.
- Develop and maintain model validation and security scanning pipelines for model quality, correctness, and vulnerability assessment.
- Implement quantization, pruning, and other optimization techniques to reduce model footprint and improve inference latency across hardware configurations.
- Build guardrail and content safety systems addressing compliance, jailbreaking, and prompt injection risks.
- Design model routing and prompt management infrastructure for intelligent handling across model variants.
- Contribute to model evaluation frameworks measuring accuracy, performance, and safety throughout the model lifecycle.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, Business Analytics and Project Management, or Analytics.
- One year of experience in the job offered or a closely related engineering role.
- One year of experience with TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, Linux, Bash/Shell, log analysis, Python scripting and automation, web performance and caching troubleshooting, SSL/TLS, secure web delivery, root cause analysis, JavaScript, HTML, web debugging, global traffic routing, and edge diagnostics.
Benefits
- Telecommuting is permitted from anywhere within the United States.
- Akamai’s FlexBase program supports working from home, in an office, or in a combination of both.
- Benefits include healthcare, a 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, an employee assistance program, and financial and mental wellness support.
- The compensation package may include annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
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About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.