- Austin, Texas, United States +1 more
- Hybrid
- Full-time
As a Hardware Systems Engineer, you will work with colleagues on the Engineering teams, Product and Performance teams, and Hardware Sourcing teams to design, qualify and maintain Cloudflare’s worldwide fleet of GPU servers.
Locations (2)
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the technical requirements and end-to-end delivery of AI infrastructure — compute, networking, storage, power, and cooling — not just the accelerator
- Evaluate, select, and qualify AI hardware platforms (GPUs, custom ASICs, SmartNICs, storage) based on real workload requirements and first-principles analysis
- Design and validate rack-scale GPU systems: multi-node topologies, high-speed interconnects (NVLink, InfiniBand, RoCE), power distribution, and thermal management
- Run hands-on qualification: benchmarking, stress testing, failure mode analysis, and vendor RCA — you close the loop yourself
- Assess and qualify ODM/OEM server platforms; engage directly with vendors and work through the full technical qualification cycle