AI Engineer

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, TX 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. What you'll do In this role you will design, build, and ship AI-powered product features. You will often collaborate across disciplines by partnering with engineers, data scientists, designers, and stakeholders to integrate AI seamlessly into existing systems and workflows. As the landscape for AI continues to change you will be expected to stay current on emerging AI techniques and tooling, experiment rapidly, and bring forward ideas that are practical, maintainable, and impactful. Applying AI to existing products as well as new products will be an important part of this role and your ability to ship production-grade systems will be an expected requisite. On any given day you might be benchmarking various AI models, writing evals, collaborating with other AI teams on novel solutions, or developing a net-new product to release to Cloudflare customers. Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience 5+ years of experience working with distributed systems. Experience designing and building frontend applications. Solid understanding of cloud primitives and how they work together to build distributed systems. Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language: we primarily use TypeScript. Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in large-scale frontend applications. Experience developing and deploying AI solutions 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 : 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 custom ... (truncated, view full listing at source)