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Research Engineer Intern (Fall 2026)

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Job Summary

Work with Cloudflare’s Research Team on open-ended research projects in security, privacy, and systems at scale. You’ll be matched to ongoing research directions spanning AI, distributed systems, privacy, and trusted execution environments, combining engineering, data analysis, open-source contributions, protocol design, and measurement. Ideal candidates communicate research clearly and can work in systems-level languages while collaborating on reliability-focused debugging.

Location: London

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Internship · 3 months

Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Seniority: Intern level

Key Responsibilities

•Be matched to suitable projects aligned with ongoing Cloudflare research directions.
•Solve difficult problems in security, privacy, and systems at scale with engineering and data analysis.
•Contribute to open source software development, protocol design, and implementation of primitives.
•Support research work with extensive measurement and analysis.
•Collaborate with the research team and communicate progress and findings through technical documentation or publications.

Key Requirements

•Evidence of tackling hard or open-ended problems.
•A proven track record of peer-reviewed research, open-source contributions, or standards development commensurate with training.
•Ability to clearly communicate 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) and passion for debugging and system reliability.
•Familiarity with continuous integration workflows and source control systems (e.g., GitLab, GitHub).

Experience:ResearchOpen sourceSecurityPrivacyDistributed systems

Skills:CommunicationDebuggingKnowledge sharingReliability-minded

Languages:English

Tech Stack:AIAI/MLRustCGoPythonGitlabGitHubTCP/IPDNSBGPQUICSSL/TLSPKI

Company Brief

Cloudflare

Provides a global network and cloud platform that delivers security, performance, and reliability services for web applications, APIs, and Internet properties, including CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, and zero-trust security solutions.

Industry: Cybersecurity

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2009

Website LinkedIn

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1 day ago

Research Engineer Intern (Fall 2026)

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Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 22 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: London

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Internship · 3 months

Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Seniority: Intern level

Key Responsibilities

•Be matched to suitable projects aligned with ongoing Cloudflare research directions.
•Solve difficult problems in security, privacy, and systems at scale with engineering and data analysis.
•Contribute to open source software development, protocol design, and implementation of primitives.
•Support research work with extensive measurement and analysis.
•Collaborate with the research team and communicate progress and findings through technical documentation or publications.

Key Requirements

•Evidence of tackling hard or open-ended problems.
•A proven track record of peer-reviewed research, open-source contributions, or standards development commensurate with training.
•Ability to clearly communicate 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) and passion for debugging and system reliability.
•Familiarity with continuous integration workflows and source control systems (e.g., GitLab, GitHub).

Experience:ResearchOpen sourceSecurityPrivacyDistributed systems

Skills:CommunicationDebuggingKnowledge sharingReliability-minded

Languages:English

Tech Stack:AIAI/MLRustCGoPythonGitlabGitHubTCP/IPDNSBGPQUICSSL/TLSPKI

Company Brief

Cloudflare

Industry: Cybersecurity

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2009

Website LinkedIn