Automation Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

Available Location: Austin

People Innovation Lab — Cloudflare People Team

Reports to: Lead, AI Transformation & Strategic Initiatives (People & Places)

About the Role

Join the People Innovation Lab to build and deploy smart tools for the People organization. This role sits within the people in places function under the lead for AI transformation and strategic initiatives. This role is focused on helping us to automate the processes that bog people down and moving us towards an agentic future.

Key focus:

Identify and eliminate manual workflows across the People team.

Build diverse automation solutions (Google Workspace, Workers, background jobs, multi-step agents).

Utilize AI coding tools (e.g., OpenCode) and build autonomous agents.

Strong fundamentals and fast execution are key.

What You'll Build & Do

Build:

Workflow automations (Google Workspace, APIs, third-party platforms).

Event-driven automations using Cloudflare Workers.

AI-powered tools (LLM APIs like Gemini, Workers AI) for reasoning (summarization, routing).

Reusable components and early-stage, stateful, autonomous agents.

Clean documentation.

Audit workflows for high-value automation.

Build and ship automations in JavaScript/TypeScript (Google Workspace, Workers).

Integrate AI/LLM APIs; use AI-assisted development (OpenCode).

Requirements

Minimum:

Pursuing/equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.

Proficient in JavaScript or Python; writes clean code.

Experience with REST APIs and structured data.

Independent problem-solving.

Fluent with AI tools.

Experience building automations (Zapier, Make, n8n, Apps Script, custom code).

Prior LLM/AI API integration experience.

Familiarity with event-driven/serverless architecture.

What We Provide

Platform onboarding and hands-on AI-assisted development experience.

Dedicated manager, feedback, and real production automations.

Portfolio artifact (production automations, agent-building track record).

The Team's Vision

The team is building AI agents for the People organization that can reason, act, and coordinate without constant human input. You will contribute to this foundation and gain firsthand experience.

Automation Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

Automation Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

People Innovation Lab — Cloudflare People Team

About the Role

Key focus:

What You'll Build &amp; Do

Requirements

What We Provide

The Team's Vision

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