Description
At Twilio, we're shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.
As a Tech Lead, Applied Research - Emerging Tech, you will contribute hands-on technical expertise, collaborate on rapid prototyping, and develop innovative solutions as part of Twilio's incubation team. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to design and build new product ideas, leveraging modern technologies and your problem-solving abilities.
Responsibilities:
- Architect & Deliver: Design, develop, and own the end-to-end implementation of high-stakes prototypes and robust, production-ready solutions.
- Spearhead AI R&D: Drive the technical direction and collaborate with cross-functional teams to experiment with, validate, and integrate AI, machine learning, and frontier technologies.
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Establish governance for code reviews and pioneer continuous improvements to engineering standards, mentoring peers to elevate overall code quality.
- Influence & Evangelize: Articulate complex technical concepts, architectural decisions, and project velocity clearly to executive stakeholders and engineering peers alike.
- Drive Agility: Navigate ambiguity and rapidly pivot technical strategies in response to shifting requirements, user feedback, and fast-paced market dynamics.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of professional full-stack software development experience.
- Proficiency across modern programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, Java or Go with the ability to select the right tool for the job.
- Experience building applications using front-end (React, Angular) and/or back-end (Node.js, Springboot) frameworks.
- Data Architecture: Solid understanding of database technologies, including both SQL and NoSQL paradigms and when to select them.
- Next-Gen Workflow: Mastery of an agentic coding operating model; highly effective at leveraging advanced dev tools, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and LLMs to drastically accelerate AI-assisted development.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset with effective communication skills for technical discussions.
- Extreme Autonomy: Exceptional ability to navigate intense ambiguity, self-unblock execution, and ruthlessly solve ambiguous problems without requiring constant structural support.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Strong communication and mentorship skills, with a collaborative mindset suited for high-bandwidth technical discussions.
Location: This role will be remote and based in the United States.
Compensation: The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:
- Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C. : $227,840.00 - 284,800.00
- Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area): $241,200.00 - 301,500.00
- Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $268,000.00 - 335,000.00