Forward Deployed Engineer

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Join the team as Twilio’s next Forward Deployed Engineer!

About the job

This position is needed to support the GTM Innovation team. As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Twilio, you will be responsible for accelerating the adoption of new solutions and platform capabilities in incubation with our Top Global customers.

Operating with a forward deployed engineering mindset, you will bridge the gap where many enterprise AI projects stall at the last mile. Specifically, you will own the technical delivery of the Solution Acceleration Program — going beyond isolated sandbox environments to embed alongside customer engineers and deploy their first low-risk production use case. You will run workshops and hackathons across Twilio's global sales base, build early adoption playbooks, and dramatically shorten the customer's path to value realization and ARR generation. In doing so, you will serve as a critical technical conduit, surfacing product signals and structured field insights that directly influence Twilio's core R&D roadmaps.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• Lead technical engagements end-to-end scoping solution architecture in POC workshops, designing and building production-grade systems, and driving the engagement through stabilization to the launch of the first live use case..
• Write and ship production code (Python, TypeScript, Node) directly in customer codebases — designing APIs, integrating with existing customer architecture, building proper error handling, observability, and test coverage — working as a hands-on contributor alongside customer engineers, not just an advisor.
• Architect solutions that pass customer Infosec, security, and Architecture Review Board (ARB) review, translating security and compliance requirements into concrete implementation decisions around auth, data handling, and infrastructure design.
• Lead high-energy customer hackathons and builder activation events at flagship or target Direct accounts to accelerate the adoption of new solutions.
• Build and maintain reusable technical assets — reference implementations, starter apps, SDKs, sample repos, and companion engineering guides — that demonstrate sound architecture and become the technical backbone for adoption across accounts.
• Partner with Enterprise Architects and Demo Platform Engineering to turn high-level reference architectures into working, deployable code that customer builder teams can extend on their own.
• Evangelize Twilio within the B2B builder communities of the target accounts by driving build