Telnyx

Forward Deployed Engineer, SEA

Telnyx
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4 hours ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand communications workflows, AI use cases, and integration challenges.
  • Design, build, and deploy custom implementations using Telnyx APIs, AI voice assistants, WebRTC, and related connectivity services.
  • Deploy and operate LLM gateways, model-serving stacks, routing strategies, evaluation pipelines, and governance controls in customer environments.
  • Instrument production systems with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and operational runbooks.
  • Lead technical discovery, POCs, pilots, production launches, and customer handoff through a stable go-live.
  • Troubleshoot complex integration issues, own customer outcomes, and collaborate with Product and Engineering on roadmap improvements.

Requirements

  • A CS degree or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of building and shipping production software used by real users.
  • 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 failures.
  • 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.
  • Exposure to SIP, WebRTC, or real-time voice and messaging systems.
  • Customer-facing engineering experience, independent troubleshooting ability, and strong technical judgment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Korean.
  • Based in Seoul or willing to relocate, with comfort working on customer sites and traveling across South Korea and Southeast Asia.
  • Legally authorized to work in South Korea or eligible for sponsorship.
  • Preferred experience includes AI voice assistants, STT/TTS, LLM evaluation, LLM gateways, open-weight models, inference serving, 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 Seoul or requiring relocation, with travel across South Korea and the broader SEA 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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