Are you excited about working with cutting-edge network technologies?

Are you someone who likes to build hardware in your free time?

Join our Server Team

Akamai's Infrastructure Engineering & Operations organization builds and maintains Akamai's Platform - one of the world's largest distributed platforms. Our Server Hardware Engineering team is responsible for designing, qualifying, and testing servers destined for our growing network.

Partner with the best

As a Hardware Engineer, you will develop, validate, manage lifecycles, and document Akamai's Server Hardware Platforms for a growing network. Collaborating with vendors, you will evaluate pre-release hardware and provide input on future product designs. Join a team designing servers and developing firmware for a platform with over 300,000 servers across 130 countries.

As a Senior Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Defining and review architecture for next-generation platforms.
- Leading design reviews across electrical, mechanical, and firmware domains.




- Negotiating requirements and trade-offs with product and business team
- Anticipating system-level challenges (thermal, signal integrity, compliance) and propose solutions.
- Overseeing multi-vendor engagements and align with roadmap goals.
- Managing hardware failure escalations and coordinate resolutions with OEM/ODM suppliers for deployed systems
- Driving post-deployment analysis and feedback loops into design.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:
- Hold a Bachelor's in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or a related discipline.
- have experience across the full hardware development lifecycle, including pre-production sample evaluation, mass-production validation, and leading comprehensive validation strategies.
- Demonstrate expertise with server hardware componentsDisk, RAM, NIC, GPUand their protocols (Comptia Server+level proficiency).
- Demonstrate expertise operating lab equipmentsuch as oscilloscopes, thermal

📌 Senior Hardware Engineer (Pol)
🏢 Akamai Technologies
📍 Pol