Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

We are transforming how organizations safeguard data centers and clouds against advanced threats, starting with our team. The AI Velocity group features top experts who excel at resolving intricate technological challenges. We continuously seek individuals to inspire, challenge, and enhance our efforts as we develop the industry’s most comprehensive cybersecurity solutions.

Partner with the best

We are seeking a resourceful problem solver to join the AI Velocity team in Spain. This role involves designing and deploying platforms, advancing AI initiatives to enhance employee experiences, and working closely with talented AI researchers, engineers, and architects in a dynamic setting.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Researching, implementing, and validating new AI techniques and tools to turn new ideas into production-ready systems.
• Analyzing model performance and optimizing agent behavior to ensure top-tier functionality.
• Designing, developing, maintaining, and deploying a platform for others to deploy their own agents.
• Collaborating closely with AI researchers, engineers, and architects to translate cutting-edge AI research into production.
• Identifying bottlenecks and pain points across the organization, and proposing AI-based solutions to address them.
• Designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks to ensure robust software quality across multiple platforms and environments.

• Demonstrate experience in Software development, with Python being an absolute must.
• Demonstrate experience with LLMs, AI Agents, and at least one AI framework such as ADK, Langchain/Langraph, or CrewAI.
• Demonstrate expertise with both Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Show experience with at least one cloud provider such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and their related AI solutions like VertexAI.
• Demonstrate experience with our broader tech stack, including Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CircleCI, Langfuse, and a variety of DBs.
• Apply statistical thinking and an experimental mindset, coupled with excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you’re streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we’re the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world’s most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security : Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery : Scaling the world’s biggest moments without a glitch.

AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world’s most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don’t just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we’re the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits)

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Akamai’s FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It’s not about telling employees where to work; it’s about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.