Telnyx

Forward Deployed Engineer, Hong Kong

Telnyx
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Hong Kong, Hong KongMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand communications workflows, AI use cases, and integration challenges.
  • Design architectures and build custom implementations using Telnyx APIs, AI voice assistants, WebRTC, and communications services.
  • Lead POCs, pilots, production launches, and customer outcomes from initial discovery through stable go-live.
  • Deploy and operate LiteLLM, open-weight models, model-serving systems, routing and fallback strategies, and LLM governance controls.
  • Build prompt and RAG pipelines, evaluation harnesses, and portable applications for English, Cantonese, and Mandarin use cases.
  • Implement production observability covering metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, cost tracking, and usage governance.
  • Troubleshoot complex integration issues, create documentation and runbooks, and collaborate with Product and Engineering on roadmap improvements.

Requirements

  • CS degree or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of building and shipping production software used by real customers.
  • Proficiency in multiple languages including Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and Go.
  • Practical experience with production model integrations, rate limits, quotas, retries, streaming, token accounting, concurrency, and cost attribution.
  • Experience deploying containerized services on Kubernetes with secrets management, 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.
  • Exposure to SIP, WebRTC, or real-time voice and messaging systems.
  • Customer-facing engineering experience, including technical discovery, executive presentations, troubleshooting, and customer-site work.
  • Excellent written and verbal English and Chinese communication skills, with Cantonese and/or Mandarin capability.
  • Based in Hong Kong or willing to relocate, and legally authorized to work in Hong Kong or eligible for sponsorship.
  • Preferred qualifications include AI voice, STT/TTS, LLM gateway, model-serving, SQL, ETL, CI/CD, telecom, CPaaS, SaaS, sovereign or on-premises cloud, regulatory, and security experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in Hong Kong with travel across Hong Kong and the broader Greater China/APAC region.
  • Opportunity to work directly with enterprise customers on production AI, communications, connectivity, and wireless systems.
  • High-autonomy field engineering role with direct collaboration with Product and Engineering and influence on the roadmap.

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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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