About the role
We’re rekindling efforts to leverage acceleration and machine learning at Cloudflare in 2023, and the HW systems team is looking to hire senior technical engineers with a strong understanding of deep learning, ML end-to-end workloads and frameworks, and experience with hardware accelerator and processor architectures (GPUs, CPUs w/AI features, ASICs). This is an exciting opportunity with real world impact, where you’ll get to build and deploy hardware accelerators on our data center platform.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate, design and deploy cutting edge acceleration solutions for our growing services
- Lead the design of scalable AI infrastructure for Cloudflare’s own internal machine learning platform and tune for optimal performance
- Collaborate with product/data science teams to identify customer use-cases and translate workloads to technical design and hardware requirements (architecture definition, hardware selection, performance tuning)
- Engage with hardware vendors to identify hardware solutions that best fit needs of the platform
- Set the strategy and long term roadmap to demonstrate the value proposition of AI/ML workloads for the edge
- Engage with AI leaders across the industry and influence design based on open industry standards
Qualifications
- Masters or equivalent experience in Computer Architecture, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field with 12 years of relevant experience or equivalent
- Has demonstrated technical leadership on critical company wide projects with experience in computer architecture (GPU, CPU w/AI. acceleration) and ML software ecosystem. Experience with programming models a plus
- Strong technical foundation and deep understanding of cloud technologies, DL/ML workloads in the industry, frameworks (Tensorflow/Pytorch), and containers tools.
- Ability to work in a constantly changing ambiguous environment and bridget the software/hardware divide
- Industry-wide impact. Proactively creates formal networks involving coordination with internal and external technical leaders and has tangible proof points (patents, papers, conference contributions, open source SW or HW contributions, and/or sitting on a standards committee or board, etc.) demonstrating industry-wide influence as an influential spokesperson for the organization
- Must be collaborative and has demonstrated ability to work effectively across cross functional teams, sound technical judgement and is capable of building positive working relationships
- Seeks to mentor team members, offers technical advice and seeks to continuously learn
