# Senior Hardware Engineer

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: Qualifying and validating server hardware platforms and components Evaluating pre-production hardware and server architectures Driving complex hardware and system-level investigations to resolution independently Creating and improving validation plans, test methodologies, tools, and technical documentatio

- **Id**: 552182
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/akamai-senior-hardware-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Kraków, Poland
- **Countries**: PL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T13:50:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 64
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3322
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection

## Company

- **Id**: 15228
- **Name**: Akamai
- **Domain**: akamai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/akamai>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 36
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.528
- **Repost share**: 0.028
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 59000
- **Max usd**: 110000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 12

## Technologies

- **Akamai** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 64

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-08T16:51:58Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker); Route: Skilled Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.188
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 64
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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