Models Engineer, AI Platform

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. Cloudflares 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

As a Models Engineer at Cloudflare you will be the technical heartbeat of our AI community bridging the gap between cutting-edge models and the developers building on our platform. Youll work directly with model creators and research teams to bring new models to Cloudflare while simultaneously educating and inspiring our global developer base. Were looking for someone who can navigate a technical partnership call in the morning and debug a developers issue on Discord in the afternoon.

Role Responsibilities

• Model Partnerships & Integration: Identify and evaluate promising new models. Work directly with external model teams research labs open-source maintainers and partner organizations to bring their work to Cloudflare. Serve as the technical point of contact through integration and launch.
• Technical Content & Education: Author tutorials technical blog posts and documentation that help developers understand and adopt our AI offerings. Make complex concepts accessible.
• Community Engagement & Support: Actively participate in developer communities like Discord. Provide technical support gather feedback and build relationships with developers and contributors.
• Engineering & Prototyping: Build demos sample applications and reference implementations that showcase whats possible with Cloudflares AI infrastructure.
• Internal Product Advocacy: Synthesize feedback from developers and model partners into actionable insights for Product and Engineering teams. Influence roadmap API design and feature prioritization.
• Event Representation: Present at conferences meetups and online events through technical talks workshops and live demonstrations.

Role Requirements

Must-Have

• Technical Depth: Strong experience with Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers and Diffusers Cog). Solid understanding of how models work and how to work with them.
• Content Creation: Portfolio of technical writing blog posts documentation tutorials that demonstrates clear explanation of complex topics.
• Public Speaking: Experience presenting technical content at conferences meetups or through video content.
• Community Presence: Active participation in developer communities. Youre visible helpful and engaged.
• Partnership Experience: Track record of working with external teams whether open-source maintainers research groups or partner engineering teams.
• Prototyping Ability: Can build end-to-end applications that integrate models and serve as examples for developers.

Nice-to-Have

• Familiarity with Cloudflare Workers or serverless/edge architectures.
• Full-stack experience (JavaScript/TypeScript) for building complete applications.
• Experience with model fine-tuning or vector databases.
• Background in ML research or contributions to model development.
• Experience with image video or audio models.

Common Daily Activities

• Call with a model team to discuss integration requirements for an upcoming release.
• Troubleshooting a developers issue in Discord or triaging GitHub issues.
• Writing a blog post on performance characteristics of a newly launched model.
• Collaborating with Engineering on how an API change will affect the developer experience.
• Building a demo application for an upcoming launch.
• Reviewing community feedback and distilling it into product recommendations.

Application Materials

• Resume/CV
• Portfolio: GitHub blog or links to talks and technical writing

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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 weve equipped more than 2400 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 Cloudflares 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 weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 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. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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