Are you excited about building innovative AI solutions and shaping how AI is used across an entire organization?
Do you enjoy translating cutting-edge AI research into production-ready systems?
Join Guardicore (now Akamai Enterprise Security Group)
We are transforming how organizations safeguard data centers and clouds against advanced threats, starting with our team. The AI Velocity group features top experts who excel at resolving intricate technological challenges. We continuously seek individuals to inspire, challenge, and enhance our efforts as we develop the industry's most comprehensive cybersecurity solutions.
Partner with the best
We are seeking a resourceful problem solver to join the AI Velocity team in Spain. This role involves designing and deploying platforms, advancing AI initiatives to enhance employee experiences, and working closely with talented AI researchers, engineers, and architects in a dynamic setting.
As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Researching, implementing, and validating new AI techniques and tools to turn new ideas into production-ready systems.
- Analyzing model performance and optimizing agent behavior to ensure top-tier functionality.
- Designing, developing, maintaining, and deploying a platform for others to deploy their own agents.
- Collaborating closely with AI researchers, engineers, and architects to translate cutting-edge AI research into production.
- Identifying bottlenecks and pain points across the organization, and proposing AI-based solutions to address them.
- Designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks to ensure robust software quality across multiple platforms and environments.
What you'll build
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate experience in Software development, with Python being an absolute must.
- Demonstrate experience with LLMs, AI Agents, and at least one AI framework such as ADK, Langchain/Langraph, or CrewAI.
- Demonstrate expertise with both Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Show experience with at least one cloud provider such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and their related AI solutions like VertexAI.
- Demonstrate experience with our broader tech stack, including Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CircleCI, Langfuse, and a variety of DBs.
- Apply statistical thinking and an experimental mindset, coupled with excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Skills Required
- Software development experience with Python
- Experience with LLMs, AI Agents and AI frameworks (ADK, Langchain, Langraph, or CrewAI)
- Expertise with Linux and Windows operating systems
- Experience with at least one cloud provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and related AI services (e.g., VertexAI)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CircleCI, Langfuse, and databases
- Designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks
- Statistical thinking, experimental mindset, strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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