Akamai Technologies · 1 week ago
Senior Hardware Engineer
Cambridge, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$126K/yr - $262K/yr
8+ years expAkamai Technologies is a leader in online security and cloud services. The Senior Hardware Engineer will focus on integrating DPU hardware and software into Akamai's compute and GPU server platforms, ensuring reliable performance and functionality.
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Responsibilities
Driving DPU hardware and software integration into Akamai compute and GPU server platforms, including PCIe, networking, storage, and manageability interfaces
Planning and executing validation for DPU platforms, including functional, performance, interoperability, stress, and reliability testing for data-center scale use cases
Implementing and validating 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
Developing automation, scripts, and test tooling to exercise DPUs, collect telemetry at scale, and turn results into requirements
Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to translate workload and SLO requirements into software and hardware configurations and test plans
Working with vendors to evaluate new DPU generations, firmware and feature updates, and trade-offs between performance, efficiency, supply continuity, and TCO
Qualification
Required
Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field
Have experience with data center SmartNICs, or DPUs, including integration into x86/ARM servers and familiarity with PCIe, SR-IOV, and virtualization concepts
Have a solid understanding of networking fundamentals, and familiarity with technologies such as VXLAN, BGP, RDMA/RoCE, congestion control, and load balancing in large-scale data centers
Have experience with platform validation, PCIe/NVMe and networking qualification, and system-level stress testing
Have Linux skills and proficiency with scripting languages such as Python and Bash for automation and data analysis
Be comfortable working across HW/FW/SW boundaries, collaborating with teams to debug issues in the data path, control plane, and management stack
Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to describe problems and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
Benefits
Healthcare
401K savings plan
Company holidays
Vacation (in the form of PTO)
Sick time
Family friendly benefits including parental leave
Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
Company
Akamai Technologies
Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.63BKey Investors
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2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2023-08-15Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2001-08-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tom Leighton
Chief Executive Officer
Charlie Gero
CTO
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