• serve as a technical leader and architect for our globally distributed AI inference platform • drive critical technical decisions, establish architectural patterns • guide the team in building a platform that delivers OpenAI-compatible endpoints while orchestrating inference workloads across regions at massive scale • provide thought leadership, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while delivering hands-on technical contributions • architect and design the core infrastructure of Akamai Inference Cloud, ensuring it is performant, compliant, economical, and explainable • make critical technical decisions on frameworks, tools, and approaches for AI workload deployment and global traffic orchestration • collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and elevate team capabilities