Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

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, Texas, US

Internship Dates: June 8 - August 28 or June 22 - September 11

About the team

The Data Intelligence & Analytics team at Cloudflare is responsible for building a unified data & ML platform that enables our internal Business Partners and Product teams with actionable analytics, insights and recommendations. Our goal is to democratize data & intelligence, support Cloudflare’s critical business needs, and provide self-service data & AI applications to fuel existing and new business critical initiatives.

About the role

We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to join our Austin team to build and operate the pipelines behind AI-driven applications, Agents, Chatbots that power teams across the company, including go-to-market, engineering, and product. As an intern, you’ll work alongside experienced data scientists and machine learning engineers to tackle real-world challenges in AI development.

What you'll do

Deploy, monitor & support ML Applications & Services on Kubernetes in cloud.

Understand MLOps landscape i.e tooling, tech stack, source systems etc. and work on new tools and solutions for ML & AI initiatives.

Partner and align with Data Scientists, Data Engineers and internal teams to deliver ML solutions in a globally distributed environment.

Leverage Cloudflare products and services for AI & ML initiatives and applications.

Use software engineering best practices to publish model scores/insights/learnings at scale within the company.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields

Experience working with programming languages such as Python, Go or Javascript.

Strong software engineering mindset, proficiency in shell scripts, CLI utilities, and version control with git.

Knowledge of AI agents, inference-time optimization, LLM evaluations.

Excellent communication & problem solving skills.

Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams and work through ambiguous business requirements.

Ability to commit to a 12 week summer internship.

In office 3-5 days a week in Austin, TX.

Bonus Points

Familiarity with container based deployments such as Docker & Kubernetes in cloud.

Experience with AI-assisted coding, building with cloudflare developer platform.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology compa