Senior Hardware Engineer

About the role

Join our Server Team! Our Hardware Engineering team designs, qualifies, and scales the server platforms that power Akamai Cloud. We partner closely with OEM/ODM manufacturers to deliver reliable, efficient, and secure platforms from concept through global deployment.

Responsibilities

• Drive DPU hardware and software integration into Akamai compute and GPU server platforms, including PCIe, networking, storage, and manageability interfaces.
• Plan and execute validation for DPU platforms, including functional, performance, interoperability, stress, and reliability testing for data-center scale use cases.
• Implement and validate networking and offload features such as RDMA/RoCE, L2/L3/L4 Ethernet/IP forwarding, SR-IOV/virtio-net/vDPA, overlay networks, and congestion control behaviors.
• Develop automation, scripts, and test tooling to exercise DPUs, collect telemetry at scale, and turn results into requirements.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate workload and SLO requirements into configurations and test plans.
• Work with vendors to evaluate new DPU generations, firmware and feature updates, and trade-offs between performance, efficiency, supply continuity, and TCO.

Requirements

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with data center SmartNICs, or DPUs, including integration into x86/ARM servers and familiarity with PCIe, SR-IOV, and virtualization concepts.
• Familiarity with DPU frameworks and languages such as NVIDIA DOCA/DPL, P4, DPDK, etc.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, and familiarity with technologies such as congestion control and load balancing in data centers.
• Experience with platform validation, PCIe/NVMe and networking qualification, and system-level stress testing.
• Linux skills and proficiency with scripting languages such as Python and Bash for automation and data analysis.
• Comfortable working across HW/FW/SW boundaries, collaborating with teams to debug issues in the data path, control plane, and management stack.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Must have 8 years of relevant experience.

Skills

• Experience with data center SmartNICs, or DPUs.
• Familiarity with DPU frameworks and languages such as NVIDIA DOCA/DPL, P4, DPDK, etc.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and technologies such as congestion control and load balancing.
• Experience with platform validation, PCIe/NVMe and networking qualification, and system-level stress testing.
• Linux skills and proficiency with scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• Comfortable working across HW/FW/SW boundaries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

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We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life: Your health, Your finances, Your family, Your time at work, Your time pursuing other endeavors. Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $126,100 - $261,900/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.