Systems Engineer - Workers AI

Key Skills

Algorithms, API, GPUs, Machine learning techniques, R Programming, Rust, TypeScript, UI design, UX design

Job Description

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 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.

About The Team

The Workers AI team is building a platform and tools that enable our customers to run fast, low-latency inference tasks on pre-trained machine-learning models natively on Cloudflare Workers.

What you'll do

We are looking for a systems engineer to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers the Workers AI platform. This is a role for engineers that are familiar with Rust, WebAssembly, TypeScript and basic notions of Machine Learning and GPUs.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Strong experience coding in Rust, WebAssembly and TypeScript.
• Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Obsession with performance and observability.
• Intermediate level of Machine Learning and GPU computing.
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs.
• An operational mindset - we don't just write code, we also own it in production
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
• Unit/integration testing experience.

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of cross-platform compute API for GPUs like Vulkan or WebGPU.
• Basic notions or experience with the networking stack.