Forward Deployed Engineer, Japan

📋 Description

• Embed with enterprise customers to understand their communications workflows, AI use cases, and
• Build and deploy custom implementations: AI Voice Assistants, Telnyx APIs (Voice, Messaging, Fax
• Run open-weight LLMs in customer environments — consume GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen, and MiniMax
• Deploy and operate LiteLLM as the model gateway in customer environments: a unified
• Instrument and govern LLM usage through the gateway — cost tracking and budgets, caching, logging
• Wire production observability for everything you ship — metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and

🎯 Requirements

• CS degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years building and shipping production software — you've written code that real users depended
• Proficiency in multiple languages: Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Go — you're more dangerous in some
• Practical understanding of what breaks in front of a model in production: provider rate limits and
• Comfortable deploying containerized services on Kubernetes, with secrets management, config, and
• You've wired observability and been paged because of it — Prometheus + Grafana, OpenTelemetry