Telnyx

Forward Deployed Engineer, KSA

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8 hours ago
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand communications workflows, AI use cases, and integration challenges.
  • Design and build custom implementations using AI voice assistants, Telnyx Voice, Messaging, Fax, Wireless, and WebRTC APIs.
  • Deploy and operate LLM gateways, model-routing strategies, observability, governance, guardrails, and fallback systems in customer environments.
  • Deploy and manage containerized services, open-weight models, hosted model integrations, and self-hosted inference stacks when required by sovereignty or air-gapped environments.
  • Lead technical discovery, POCs, pilots, production launches, troubleshooting, and customer outcomes through stable go-live.
  • Build prompt and RAG pipelines and evaluation harnesses for Arabic and English use cases and KSA/GCC regulatory environments.
  • 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 including Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and Go.
  • Practical understanding of production LLM concerns including rate limits, retries, streaming, token accounting, cost attribution, and concurrency failure modes.
  • Experience deploying containerized services on Kubernetes with secrets management, configuration, and upgrades.
  • Experience implementing observability with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Graylog, or ELK.
  • High-concurrency experience with Kafka, message queues, or event streams, including partitioning, consumer groups, and backpressure management.
  • Experience building APIs using OpenAPI, REST or GraphQL, authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and idempotency.
  • Exposure to SIP, WebRTC, or real-time voice and messaging systems.
  • Customer-facing engineering experience, including technical discovery, executive presentations, whiteboard sessions, troubleshooting, and escalations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Arabic.
  • Based in Riyadh or willing to relocate, with willingness to work at customer sites and travel across Saudi Arabia and the broader GCC.
  • Legally authorized to work in Saudi Arabia or eligible for sponsorship.
  • Preferred experience includes AI voice assistants, STT/TTS, LLM conversational systems, evaluation sets, LLM gateways, open-weight models, inference serving engines, SQL, ETL, CI/CD automation, telecom or CPaaS, sovereign or on-premises deployments, and security practices such as IAM, encryption, and audit logging.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in Riyadh, with travel across Saudi Arabia and the broader GCC.
  • Relocation to Riyadh is supported as a location option for candidates willing to move.
  • Customer-site work and direct exposure to enterprise technical and executive stakeholders are part of the role.

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Forward Deployed
Telnyx

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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