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We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.\nOur dedication to remote-first work, and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands.\n.\nHiring and how we work\nWe use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! \nAlso, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. \n.\nSee yourself at Twilio\nJoin the team as Twilio’s next Sr AI Architect - Conversation AI.\nAbout the job\nThis position is critical to leveraging Twilio’s massive data ecosystem and unmatched communication scale to build our customer facing AI capabilities, such as Twilio Conversational Memory, Enterprise Knowledge, Behavioral Data Intelligence and many more to power the future of our customer engagement platform.\nAs a Sr. AI Architect for Twilio Platform, you will also influence the design and evolution of our company-wide ML/AI Ops foundation. You will set the long-term technical vision, establish architectural guardrails, and ensure strict adherence to responsible AI principles. You will drive cross-organizational initiatives, solve complex technical challenges, and elevate the technical standards across all of Twilio. Transitioning AI/ML concepts from cutting-edge research to resilient, compliant, and cost-effective production systems will be your core mission.\nAs a Sr AI Architect, you will lead the company as the Distinguished Engineer and AI Contextual Engineering SME, serving as the guiding authority to our Architects, driving company-wide impact, and steering Twilio's overarching technical direction for conversational AI. In this pivotal leadership role, you will also influence the design and evolution of our company-wide ML/AI Ops foundation. You will set the long-term technical vision, establish architectural guardrails, and ensure strict adherence to responsible AI principles. By driving cross-organizational initiatives and solving complex technical challenges, you will elevate the technical standards across all of Twilio. Transitioning AI/ML concepts from cutting-edge research to resilient, compliant, and cost-effective production systems will be your core mission.\nResponsibilities\nIn this role, you’ll:\nDefine and drive a long-term AI/ML architectural vision that aligns with Twilio’s business goals, specifically focusing on how data and memory power the next generation of customer engagement.\nOwn the strategic roadmap for Twilio’s ML/AI Ops platform and tooling, ensuring a unified approach to model development, deployment, and lifecycle management across all platform capabilities.\nEvaluate and implement modern LLM architectures, RAG systems, MCP/tooling frameworks, and inference optimization techniques.\nLead architecture for agentic AI systems including orchestration, reasoning, tool usage, and contextual grounding.\nStay current with rapidly evolving advancements in LLMs, agent frameworks, reasoning systems, and AI infrastructure.\nTransition seamlessly from high-level strategic communication with executives to deep-dive code reviews and pair programming with engineers. \nPartner closely with Product Management to turn a roadmap into a sequence of technical milestones, ensuring that technical investments always map to customer value.\nHave a 'player-coach' mentality, and contribute hands-on technical expertise while providing strategic direction and mentorship to the team.\nQualifications \nTwilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!\nRequired:\n15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 6+ years specifically focused on building and scaling production-grade ML systems at a platform level.\nExtensive experience with ML Ops and LLM Ops patterns, including designing and implementing rigorous evaluation metrics, automated retraining loops, and monitoring for non-deterministic AI features at scale.\nDeep expertise in the design, architecture, and deployment of production-grade ML/AI systems, including deep knowledge of transformer models, LLM orchestration, embedding models, inference optimization and vector stores.\nDeep understanding of the Context Engineering lifecycle, including semantic retrieval, contextual compression, state management across multi-turn conversations.\nStrong background in building cloud-based services using AWS, GCP, or Azure, with experience managing high-volume data and various data stores.\nExceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to mentor engineers, influence company wide technical strategy, product direction, and drive results across the company.\nA Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, or a closely related quantitative field.\nDesired\nA track record of relevant publications at top ML conferences or significant open-source contributions.\nExperience designing evaluation frameworks that specifically measure context quality\nTrack record of designing and implementing enterprise-scale ML/AI Ops platforms\nExperience working in a geographically distributed environment.\nLocation\nThis role will be remote and based in the United States.\nTravel \nWe prioritize connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role, approximately 5% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way. \nWhat We Offer\nWorking at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.\nCompensation\nPlease note this role is open to candidates outside of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington D.C., and Washington State. The information below is provided for candidates hired in those locations only.\nThe estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:\nBased in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C. : $275,840.00 - 344,800.00.\nBased in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area): $292,080.00 - 365,100.00.\nBased in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $324,480.00 - 405,600.00.\nThis role may be eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan. All roles are generally eligible for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.\nThe successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. \nApplication deadline information \nApplications for this role are intended to be accepted until October 30, 2026 but may change based on business needs. \nTwilio thinks big. Do you?\nWe like to solve problems, take initiative, pitch in when needed, and are always up for trying new things. That's why we seek out colleagues who embody our values - something we call Twilio Magic. Additionally, we empower employees to build positive change in their communities by supporting their volunteering and donation efforts.\nSo, if you're ready to unleash your full potential, do your best work, and be the best version of yourself, apply now! If this role isn't what you're looking for, please consider other open positions.\n.\nStay alert to recruitment fraud\nWe care about your safety. Scammers sometimes impersonate Twilio recruiters through fake job postings, emails, websites, or messages. Please ensure you are engaging with an official @twilio.com email address. We will never ask for payment, gift cards, cryptocurrency, or banking information during the recruiting process. We do not make job offers without a formal interview process or conduct interviews exclusively through text-based messaging apps.\n.\nTwilio is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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