Machine Learning Engineer

Twilio - United States

Hiring: Machine Learning Engineer Company: Twilio Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:22:40 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AI, AWS, Agile, Airflow, ArgoCD, Azure, CI/CD, Data Pipeline, Deep Learning, Docker, DynamoDB, EMR, Feature Store, Fine-tuning, Flink, GCP, GitHub, GitOps, Java, Kafka, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, LLM, LangChain, MLOps, MLflow, Machine Learning, OpenSearch, Python, RAG, SQL, SageMaker, Snowflake, Spark, Systems Design, Twilio, UI/UX About the job Experience: •5+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating data and ML systems in production. Required Skills: •Partner with product, UX, and technical stakeholders to analyze business problems, clarify requirements, define scope, and translate them into measurable ML problem statements. •Design, implement, and maintain scalable, enterprise-grade ML solutions in production. •Build reproducible ML workflows for data preparation, training, evaluation, and inference using modern orchestration and MLOps tooling. •Implement monitoring and evaluation frameworks to continuously improve data quality, model performance, latency, and cost through feedback loops. •Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science/ML, Engineering, and Security to deliver resilient, scalable, and compliant ML-powered services. •Demonstrate end-to-end systems understanding and articulate the “why” behind model and system design choices. •Own operational excellence: SLAs, on-call, incident response, customer feedback triage, and blameless post-mortems. •Drive engineering excellence via AI-assisted SDLC, code reviews, automated testing, MLOps best practices, knowledge-sharing, and mentoring. 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! •Strong foundation in ML/AI (statistics, probability, optimization) with the ability to apply these concepts to real-world problems. •Proficient in Python, Java, and SQL; strong software engineering fundamentals (system design, testing, version control, code reviews). •Applied hands-on capability in workflow orchestration and data pipelines (e.g., Airflow, Kubeflow) and cloud data platforms/storage (e.g., SageMaker Feature Store, Snowflake, DynamoDB, OpenSearch). •Solid functional working knowledge of containerization and cloud infrastructure, including Docker and Kubernetes, GitOps/CI/CD tools (e.g., Argo CD), and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure). •Understanding of data modeling and scalable systems, including distributed computing and streaming frameworks (e.g., Spark/EMR, Flink, Kafka Streams); familiarity with GPU-based implementation is a plus. •Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly and operate effectively in new application/business domains. •Strong written and verbal communication skills: able to document and present designs and decisions, and comfortable giving/receiving feedback in an Agile environment. •Operational familiarity with ML problem areas and techniques, including recommendation systems (e.g., graph-based approaches, two-tower models), time-series modeling (classical and deep learning), representation learning (e.g., embeddings), anomaly detection, and causal inference. •Practical experience with LLMs and generative AI workflows, including foundation model fine-tuning, RAG, and vector databases. Compensation: •$155,520 - $194,400 / year •This role may be eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!