Telnyx

Forward Deployed Engineer, Israel

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5 hours ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand workflows, AI use cases, and integration challenges.
  • Lead technical discovery, architecture, POCs, pilots, production launches, and customer go-lives.
  • Build and deploy AI voice assistants, communications integrations, and custom implementations using Telnyx APIs, WebRTC, and related technologies.
  • Deploy and operate LLM gateways, model-serving stacks, routing strategies, observability, cost controls, logging, and guardrails in customer environments.
  • Design prompt and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and evaluation harnesses for Hebrew and English use cases.
  • Build production observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Troubleshoot complex integration issues, remove blockers, and maintain customer ownership until solutions are live and stable.
  • Create technical documentation and runbooks for maintainable handoff.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap based on customer insights from Israel.

Requirements

  • CS degree or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience building and shipping production software.
  • Proficiency in Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and Go.
  • Experience with production LLM systems, 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 with production observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Graylog, ELK, or equivalent tools.
  • 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, whiteboarding, troubleshooting, and escalations.
  • Strong independent engineering judgment and root-cause analysis skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Hebrew.
  • Based in Tel Aviv or willing to relocate, with authorization to work in Israel or eligibility 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, Israeli regulatory frameworks, IAM, encryption, and audit logging.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in Tel Aviv, with travel across Israel.
  • Relocation to Tel Aviv is supported by role eligibility requirements.
  • Israel work authorization or eligibility for sponsorship is required.

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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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