Telnyx

Forward Deployed Engineer, LATAM

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5 hours ago
Bogotá, ColombiaMid 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 APIs, and WebRTC.
  • Deploy and operate LiteLLM and self-hosted or hosted open-weight model solutions in customer environments.
  • Implement LLM routing, fallbacks, usage governance, cost controls, observability, logging, and guardrails.
  • Deploy production observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Lead POCs, pilots, production launches, customer troubleshooting, and stabilization through go-live.
  • Develop prompt and RAG pipelines and evaluation harnesses for Spanish, Portuguese, and English use cases.
  • Create technical documentation and runbooks and collaborate with Product and Engineering on roadmap improvements.

Requirements

  • A computer science degree or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years building and shipping production software used by real customers.
  • Proficiency in multiple languages including Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and Go.
  • Experience with production model integrations, 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 with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Graylog, or ELK.
  • High-concurrency experience with Kafka, message queues, or event streams.
  • Experience building APIs with OpenAPI, REST or GraphQL, authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and idempotency.
  • Event-driven and cloud-native engineering experience, plus exposure to SIP, WebRTC, or real-time voice and messaging systems.
  • Customer-facing engineering experience, including discovery, executive presentations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations.
  • Fluent written and verbal English and Spanish communication skills.
  • Preferred experience includes AI voice assistants, STT/TTS, LLM gateways, inference serving, SQL, ETL, telecom or CPaaS, sovereign or on-premise deployments, and security controls such as IAM and encryption.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in Bogotá or requiring relocation, with travel across Colombia and the broader Andean/LATAM region.
  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Colombia or eligible for sponsorship.

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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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