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Cloudflare is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join its Bengaluru team and help scale the next generation of AI/ML models. The Data Intelligence & Analytics organization builds the core data platform and internal products that power decision-making across the company, designing and operating large-scale data systems, owning the company's data lake, ingestion infrastructure, and platform tooling.
In this role, you will train predictive models and workflows behind AI-driven applications, agents, and chatbots that power teams across go-to-market, engineering, and product. You will be involved end-to-end—from shaping requirements and designing systems to implementation, deployment, and long-term ownership. You will focus on building scalable, reliable AI/ML models, services, and GenAI-powered application backends, partnering closely with data and full-stack engineers to deliver new features and operate the pipelines and platforms behind products. The tech stack spans Python, React, TypeScript, and evolves continuously, with many applications incorporating strong AI components including vector databases, MCP-based services, and Workers AI.
Key responsibilities include: partnering with business leaders, stakeholders, product managers, and internal teams to understand challenges and address them using predictive analytics in a globally distributed environment; understanding the data landscape (tooling, tech stack, source systems) and working closely with data engineering to improve data collection and quality; aligning analysis efforts with business/product strategy and high-level roadmap to enable strategic goals; delivering strong audience-focused presentations and storytelling; defining, implementing, and training statistical, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI models; publishing model scores, insights, and learnings at scale using software engineering best practices; identifying macro and micro-level trends with statistical significance and understanding key drivers; and taking an active role in hiring, growing, and mentoring the data scientist team in Bengaluru.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's or M.S. in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields
- 5+ years of data scientist experience with proven industry experience in large-scale environments (petabyte scale & globally distributed teams); fast-growing SaaS company experience preferred
- Strong experience working with business functions such as Finance, Sales, and Marketing to build models and drive impactful business outcomes (e.g., customer and revenue growth)
- Strong experience in scientific computing using Python
- Experience with Spark, SQL, Tableau, Google Analytics, BigQuery, or other big data/cloud equivalents
- Experience working with and processing structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data
- Strong cross-functional collaboration experience with data engineering and data analyst teams
- Proven track record of applying data insights and machine learning to address business needs and drive revenue
- Proficiency in large language models and frameworks (Langchain, Langgraph, etc.) necessary for implementing GenAI applications such as AI agents and chatbots
- Strong communication and presentation skills catered to different audiences within the company
- Capability to work closely with business, engineering, and product teams to ensure data initiatives align with business needs
- Experience in hiring data scientists and establishing team best practices preferred
