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full-timeModel Operations Lead, AI Gateway
Cloudflare · In-Office
Cloudflare operates a global network focused on improving the performance, security, and reliability of internet applications. The AI Gateway team is responsible for managing the infrastructure that allows developers to access and route traffic across various AI models. As a Model Operations Lead, you will oversee the model catalog, which involves managing provider integrations, capability testing, pricing, metering, and security reviews. Your day-to-day work will balance people management with technical execution, including writing code and building agent-driven workflows to automate model launches and monitor performance. You will be responsible for turning traffic data into actionable insights for customers, such as developing capability maps, auto-routing profiles, and regression detection systems. This role is suited for an experienced engineering leader who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where speed and reliability are critical. You should have a strong background in managing technical teams and a hands-on approach to solving complex infrastructure challenges. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives on building systems that improve developer experience and is capable of navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of AI model deployment and observability.
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, TX | New York City, NY | San Francisco, CA About AI Gateway AI inference is becoming core infrastructure. Every serious application will need access to many models across many providers, with reliability, observability, security, cost control, and routing built in from the start. AI Gateway is Cloudflare's bet that this layer belongs at the network edge: close to users, close to compute, and simple enough that a developer can adopt it with one API change. Developers using AI Gateway need answers to two questions. Is the model I'm calling working the way you say it does? And which model should I be using at all? You'll lead the models team that answers both. You'll start with model operations. That's the work behind every model in the catalog: provider integrations, capability testing, pricing and metering, capacity, security reviews, docs, health, and deprecations. Sometimes a launch needs to go live within minutes of a lab's announcement. Sometimes the right call is to hold it. Cloudflare is an infrastructure company at heart, so reliability and accuracy come first; speed comes from preparation and automation. Then you'll bring model intelligence online. That means turning what we learn from Gateway traffic into decisions for customers: capability maps, per-task rankings, auto-routing profiles that pick the right model for each request, evals and regression detection, and market intelligence developers can trust. This is a people-management role reporting to the AI Gateway Engineering Manager. You'll hire, develop, and lead the team, and you'll stay hands-on: writing code, building agent-driven workflows, and getting into the details of a failed launch or a suspicious eval SLO. Expect to manage people, projects, model stock, and operations all at once. About the Role Build and lead the models team: Hire, coach, and grow the people who run the catalog today and build its intelligence over time. Give people real ownership, give direct feedback, and grow leads who can run their own areas. Run model launches end-to-end: Scope integrations, coordinate testing and evals, confirm pricing, metering, capacity, and security, and get docs and announcements ready. Prepare day-zero launches in advance so they can ship in minutes. Keep the catalog true: Make sure what we publish (capabilities, limits, versions, prices) matches what developers actually get. Catch silent regressions, such as broken tool calling, truncated streams, quantization changes, or usage and pricing mismatches, before customers do. Build model intelligence: As it comes online, own the evals, capability maps, and per-task rankings behind our auto-routing profiles and model recommendations. Make sure they measure what they claim to, and connect regressions to routing decisions so customers who chose "auto" aren't the ones who discover a problem. Treat the catalog and intelligence as products: Have a point of view on which models belong in the catalog, which routing profiles to ship, and what market intelligence to publish. Base it on usage, quality, reliability, and cost data. Turn what you learn into roadmap input. Run a lightweight operating cadence: Keep one source of truth for what's in flight, who owns it, what's blocked, and what ships next. Keep Engineering, Product, Partnerships, and other stakeholders aligned and informed without status meetings. Automate relentlessly: Turn repeatable steps into scri
| Role | Model Operations Lead, AI Gateway |
|---|---|
| Company | Cloudflare |
| Location | In-Office |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-26 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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- 1ApplicationSubmit your resume through the apply link.
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