Principal Performance Engineer Lead
Akamai Technologies - United States
Posted Apr 7, 2026
Benefits
- Parental leave
- 18 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Non-birth-parent leave
- 10 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $55,390 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- -0.1% - Decline
Matched to SOC 25-2021 - Teaching and Education aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
Principal Performance Engineer Lead United States 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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