In-Office Research Engineer Intern – AI & Systems

Webhosting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Research Engineer Intern for a 12-week fall internship in London, working on security, privacy, and systems challenges. The role involves engineering, data analysis, open source work, protocol design, and measurement, with projects aligned to AI, distributed systems, and privacy areas.

In-office, 3–4 days a week in London, UK, offering hands-on experience in a leading Internet infrastructure company and opportunities to contribute to impactful research within Cloudflare’s

Qualifications

• Evidence of tackling hard or open-ended problems.
• Proven track record of peer-reviewed research, open-source software contributions, or standards development.
• Experience clearly communicating research ideas through papers, pre-prints, standards documents, blogs, or similar media.
• Ability to work in a systems-level programming language (e.g. Rust, C, Go).
• Passion for debugging and ensuring system reliability.
• Familiarity with continuous integration workflows and source control systems (e.g., Gitlab, Github).
• Willing and eager to share knowledge, with the skills to do so.

Responsibilities

• What you’ll do: solving difficult problems in security, privacy, and systems at scale; engineering, data analysis, open source software development, protocol design, implementation of primitives, with lots of measurement.
• Successful candidates will be matched to suitable projects in on-going research directions; areas include AI, Distributed Systems, Privacy.

Skills

Hard problems

Peer-reviewed research

English communication

Systems programming

Debugging

CI workflows

Knowledge sharing

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Research Engineer Intern for a 12-week fall internship in London, working on security, privacy, and systems challenges. The role involves engineering, data analysis, open source work, protocol design, and measurement, with projects aligned to AI, distributed systems, and privacy areas.

In-office, 3–4 days a week in London, UK, offering hands-on experience in a leading Internet infrastructure company and opportunities to contribute to impactful research within Cloudflare’s