Staff Engineer, AI Security

Job Description

Who we are 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. 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. We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Staff Engineer, AI Security. About the job As a Staff Engineer, AI Security on the AppSec team, you’ll lead autonomous defense for the AI lifecycle. Build multi-agent frameworks and secure gateways while integrating real-time security gates and identity standards. By mentoring Security and R&D to define the MLSecOps roadmap, you’ll ensure a "secure-by-default" future for agentic workflows and resilient AI innovation. Responsibilities In this role, you’ll: Serve as the primary subject matter expert for all AI and machine learning security initiatives across security and R&D. Design and manage AI gateways to provide a centralized control plane for authentication and authorization and rate limiting across all model and tool interactions. Build and maintain an autonomous security agentic framework that utilizes multi agent orchestration for end to end investigation and alert triage and remediation. Develop agentic identity models using OAuth 2.1 to propagate identity across trust boundaries and prevent the confused deputy problem. Help govern the AI augmented software development lifecycle by integrating real time security gates into the developer environment and CI/CD pipeline. Manage Agentic Security Solutions that secure AI lifecycle and manage AI workloads at runtime. Author company wide AI security standards and implement these security checks across Twilio’s stack Implement human in the loop checkpoints and transactional safety protocols for high impact or destructive agentic actions.</l

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