Sr AI Architect - Conversational AI

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Join the team as Twilio’s next Sr AI Architect - Conversation AI.

This 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.

As 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.

As 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.

• Define 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.

• Own 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.

• Evaluate and implement modern LLM architectures, RAG systems, MCP/tooling frameworks, and inference optimization techniques.

• Lead architecture for agentic AI systems including orchestration, reasoning, tool usage, and contextual grounding.

• Stay current with rapidly evolving advancements in LLMs, agent frameworks, reasoning