Hardware Engineer II

🕒 April 15

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• Supporting DPU hardware and software integration into Akamai compute and GPU server platforms, including PCIe, networking, storage, and manageability interfaces. • Executing validation plans for DPU platforms, including functional, performance, interoperability, stress, and reliability testing for data-center-scale use cases. • Implementing and maintaining automation, scripts, and test tooling to exercise DPUs, collect telemetry at scale, and summarize results for stakeholders. • 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. • Collaborating with Kernel, NetEng, SDN, Storage, Security, and Cloud teams to align workloads and SLOs in testing setups and configurations. • Working with component and silicon vendors to reproduce issues, capture detailed traces, and validate firmware and feature updates.

🎯 Requirements

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field. • Gain practical experience with server and networking hardware, including data center NICs, SmartNICs, DPUs, and integration into x86 or ARM systems. • Be familiar with PCIe, SR-IOV, virtualization, and Linux, and comfortable working across hardware, firmware, and software boundaries. • Have a strong understanding of L2/L3/L4 networking fundamentals and data center technologies such as VXLAN, BGP, RDMA/RoCE, congestion control, and ECMP. • Demonstrate expertise in hardware and platform validation, executing tests, system stress assessments, and automation via Python or Bash scripting. • Communicate effectively in English, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and adapt to hybrid work requiring three on-site days weekly.

🏖️ Benefits

• Your health • Your finances • Your family • Your time at work • Your time pursuing other endeavors