Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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Our 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.

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Hiring and how we work

We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions!

Also, 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.

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See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Twilio’s AI/ML Platform team.

About the job We are actively recruiting for this role to fill an existing vacancy. This position is needed to build the foundational AI/ML capabilities and common platform tooling that power intelligent engagement experiences across Twilio. You will influence the design and evolution of our company-wide ML/AI Ops foundation, ensuring every AI capability incorporates rigorous offline and online evals to maintain exceptionally high quality.

You will drive improvements to managing LLM workloads across the company, while ensuring easy and compliant access to data for AI/ML exploration and product development. This role requires a builder mindset to bridge theoretical research, production-grade experimentation, and scalable, enterprise-quality software.

Responsibilities In this role, you’ll:

• Conduct deep-dive research into and implement state-of-the-art LLM inference and orchestration.

• Identify opportunities to leverage small language via fine-tuning/distillation.

• Build ML systems that hold up at Twilio scale.

• Set standards and tooling for building evals across a range of AI/ML capabilities.

• Rapidly acquire new technical skills and knowledge in a fast-paced, high-delivery environment.

• Proactively leverage and integrate the latest AI development stacks to bypass boilerplate engineering and focus on core differentiation.

Qualifications Twilio 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!

*Required:

• 8+ years applied ML/AI experience with a track record of owning technically ambitious systems end to end rather than contributing to someone else's design.

• Comfort operating in a 0-to-1 setting with ambiguous requirements and a strong bias for action.

• Proficiency in Python programming language.

• Experience building cloud-based services on AWS, GCP, or Azure, with high-volume data, streaming or real-time inference paths, and a range of data stores.

• Strong fundamentals of statistical machine learning algorithms, transformer models, LLMs.

• Extensive experience with ML Ops and LLM Ops patterns, including designing and implementing rigorous evaluation metrics for non-deterministic AI features at scale.

• Strong communication skills and highly effective collaborator who works well with teammates.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.).

Desired:

• Prior experience building evals for autonomous agents and large language models.

• Prior experience building...