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Forward Deployed Engineer, Nordics

Telnyx Stockholm Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

We're building a local Enterprise Sales Pod on the Nordics, one AE and one Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), working together to build a Telnyx enterprise business in your market.

You'll embed directly with enterprise customers to architect and ship production systems on Telnyx's global network , voice, messaging, AI, and wireless.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand their communications workflows, AI use cases, and integration challenges firsthand
  • Build and deploy custom implementations: AI Voice Assistants, Telnyx APIs (Voice, Messaging, Fax, Wireless), WebRTC
  • Run open-weight LLMs in customer environments , consume GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen, and MiniMax through Telnyx Inference (OpenAI-compatible API)
  • Deploy and operate LiteLLM as the model gateway in customer environments
  • Instrument and govern LLM usage through the gateway , cost tracking and budgets, caching, logging and observability
  • Wire production observability for everything you ship , metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting
  • Design model routing strategies for real-time voice workloads, balancing latency, cost, and quality
  • Make the build-vs-buy case between self-hosted open-weight models and hosted frontier APIs
  • Adapt models to customer domains: prompt and RAG pipelines and evaluation harnesses for Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish language use cases and EU-specific regulatory environments
  • Lead POCs, pilots, and production launches from whiteboard to go-live
  • Own customer outcomes , stay engaged until the solution is live and stable
  • Collaborate directly with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap based on field insights from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland
  • Create clear technical documentation, runbooks, and maintainable solutions for handoff
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex integration issues alongside customer teams

Requirements

  • CS degree or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years building and shipping production software
  • Proficiency in multiple languages: Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Go
  • Practical understanding of what breaks in front of a model in production
  • Comfortable deploying containerized services on Kubernetes
  • You've wired observability and been paged because of it
  • High-concurrency experience , Kafka, message queues, or event streams at real scale
  • You've built APIs from scratch, not just consumed them
  • Event-driven thinking and cloud-native instincts
  • Exposure to SIP, WebRTC, or real-time voice/messaging systems
  • Self-sufficient by default , there's no engineering team behind you
  • Customer-facing engineering experience
  • Ability to translate "it's not working" into root cause
  • Comfortable working on customer sites and in high-stakes technical conversations
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English
  • Based in Stockholm, or willing to relocate , this is a hybrid role with travel across the Nordics

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • AI voice assistants
  • STT/TTS
  • LLM-based conversational systems
  • eval sets for a specific domain
  • hands-on production experience with an LLM gateway
  • familiarity with the open-weight model landscape
  • EU sovereign AI initiatives
  • inference serving engine
  • GPU capacity for self-hosted models
  • SQL proficiency
  • ETL and data wrangling experience
  • CI/CD pipeline design and automation
  • background in telecom
  • CPaaS
  • high-growth SaaS
  • sovereign or on-prem cloud deployments
  • EU regulatory frameworks
  • security mindset

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