Lead, AI Gateway Model Operations

Cloudflare, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Employee stock participation

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Cloudflare in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Model Operations Lead for AI Gateway. You will build and lead the models team, manage day-zero launches, and ensure pricing, metering, and routing are correct. You will own evaluations, capability maps, and per-task rankings behind auto-routing profiles, and translate learnings into roadmap input.

This is a hands-on leadership role with coding expectations. The role reports to the AI Gateway Engineering Manager and offers a competitive compensation

Qualifications

• Experience hiring, managing, and growing engineers or operators.
• Hands-on ability to write TypeScript, Python, or Rust, read API docs, and debug using terminal tools.
• Deep familiarity with new models, labs, and inference providers; streaming, tool calling, and pricing considerations.

Responsibilities

• Day-Zero launches: ensure new models go live with tested capabilities, pricing, docs, and routing eligibility.
• Catalog reliability: keep published capabilities and prices aligned with what developers get.
• Auto-routing: deliver improvements in cost/quality via routing profiles and rankings.
• Developer trust: maintain trusted rankings and deterministic checks for model outputs.
• Partner & stakeholder management: align with Engineering, Product, Partnerships, and other teams.
• Team leadership: provide ownership and growth paths for the team and manage delivery of launches.
• Operational scalability: reduce manual effort through automation and tooling.

Skills

People leadership

Technical shipping

Model ecosystem

Product mindset

Agent workflows

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Job description

Cloudflare in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Model Operations Lead for AI Gateway. You will build and lead the models team, manage day-zero launches, and ensure pricing, metering, and routing are correct. You will own evaluations, capability maps, and per-task rankings behind auto-routing profiles, and translate learnings into roadmap input.

This is a hands-on leadership role with coding expectations. The role reports to the AI Gateway Engineering Manager and offers a competitive compensation