Telnyx

Forward Deployed Engineer, Mexico

Telnyx
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5 hours ago
Mexico City, MexicoMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand communications workflows, AI use cases, and integration challenges.
  • Design and ship custom production implementations involving AI voice assistants, Telnyx APIs, WebRTC, and communications systems.
  • Run open-weight and hosted LLMs, deploy LiteLLM gateways, and configure routing, fallbacks, rate limits, virtual keys, and usage governance.
  • Build prompt and RAG pipelines, evaluation harnesses, model-routing strategies, and portable applications for Spanish and English use cases.
  • Implement production observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, cost tracking, caching, and guardrails.
  • Lead technical discovery, POCs, pilots, production launches, customer troubleshooting, and ongoing stabilization.
  • Create technical documentation and runbooks, and collaborate with Product and Engineering on roadmap improvements based on field insights.

Requirements

  • A CS degree or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience building and shipping production software.
  • Proficiency in multiple languages among Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and Go.
  • Practical knowledge of production LLM concerns including rate limits, retries, streaming, token accounting, cost attribution, and concurrency failure modes.
  • Experience deploying containerized services on Kubernetes and managing secrets, configuration, and upgrades.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Graylog, or ELK.
  • High-concurrency experience with Kafka, message queues, or event streams.
  • Experience building APIs, including OpenAPI, REST or GraphQL design, authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and idempotency.
  • Customer-facing engineering experience, including technical discovery, executive presentations, troubleshooting, and high-stakes conversations.
  • Exposure to SIP, WebRTC, or real-time voice and messaging systems.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Spanish.
  • Based in Mexico City or willing to relocate, with legal authorization to work in Mexico or eligibility for sponsorship.
  • Preferred experience includes AI voice assistants, STT/TTS, LLM gateways, open-weight models, inference serving, GPU sizing, SQL, ETL, CI/CD, telecom or CPaaS, sovereign or on-premises deployments, Mexican/LATAM regulations, IAM, encryption, and audit logging.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in Mexico City with travel across Mexico and the broader LATAM region.

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About Telnyx

201-500 employees

Telnyx builds a communications platform and AI infrastructure for developers and enterprises, offering SIP trunking, voice and messaging APIs, WhatsApp Business, eSIM/IoT connectivity, and low-latency inference on a private global IP network. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Austin, operates worldwide and holds a Saudi VVSP license with regional anchorsites for data locality. Revenue comes from usage-based APIs and enterprise connectivity services.

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