Job brief: Hardware Systems Engineer - AI Hardware

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• Listed on Cloudflare's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (4 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
• The apply link opens boards.greenhouse.io, the address Cloudflare's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Hybrid · Austin, TX · Lisbon, Portugal
• Posted: 2026-11-04

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Not stated. The posting does not state a level or years of experience.

Must have

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science
• export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Conditions

• Understand rack-scale systems: high-density power (kW/rack, busbar, PDU), liquid cooling (rear-door, direct liquid, immersion), high-speed networking infrastructure, and/or physic…
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity,…

Main duties

• Contribute to the technical requirements and end-to-end delivery of AI infrastructure — compute, networking, storage, power, and cooling — not just the accel…
• 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 manag…
• 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

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Austin, TX: $174k a year (131 listings, 14 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Cloudflare's 262 open listings, 41% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Cloudflare hires

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