**Who this is for** This position is for a Senior/Principal Systems Engineer passionate about the intersection of AI/ML and distributed systems. You will be a t
Work type: hybrid
Location: Hybrid
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This position is for a Senior/Principal Systems Engineer passionate about the intersection of AI/ML and distributed systems. You will be a technical leader within the Workers AI team, contributing to the deployment of AI inference on GPUs and building innovative features for developers. **Key highlights** You will be responsible for maintaining the Workers AI model catalog and the AI/ML inference code, directly impacting the products and APIs used by Cloudflare customers. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of AI at the edge. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have expert-level knowledge in Python for AI development, particularly with PyTorch or TensorFlow. - Can set the architecture and technical direction for large, cross-functional engineering projects. - Are comfortable working with tight deadlines and short release cycles. - Possess a strong sense of what constitutes a good developer experience.
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations:Austin, New York, Lisbon, London (Hybrid)
#### About the Department
Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.
About the Team
Workers AI is Cloudflare’s AI inference service, enabling customers to use a wide variety of AI models both within Cloudflare’s Workers development platform and via API. The Workers AI team owns the whole stack that powers the product, from front-end development all the way to low-level inference code. Accordingly we’re a team with a diverse array of technical skills, but everyone on the team is curious and passionate about the possibilities of generative AI.
What You’ll Do
The Workers AI AI/ML team is responsible for deploying AI inference on the GPUs within Cloudflare’s network, as well as building innovative features that enable developers to incorporate AI into their own products. You will be a technical leader on the team responsible for maintaining the Workers AI model catalog as well as the Workers AI AI and ML inference code. You will be building products and APIs that will be used by others, and will add your strong sense of what makes a good developer experience to the team.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
Medical/Rx Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance ,Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program, Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave. Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
[Project Galileo](https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-free-expression-online/): Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
[1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1/): We released[ 1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1/) to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our[ privacy commitment](https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns-resolver) and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.