AI-Native Tech Lead

About Spenza: Spenza is building the “Stripe of telecom” — a platform that lets any enterprise, reseller, or brand launch and run a mobile connectivity business through simple APIs. We innovate on three fronts to build a vertically integrated telecom company, and the agents sit across all of them:

• Operator-neutral connectivity aggregation platform with mobile plan marketplace - a connectivity marketplace with integrated billing; buy, mix, and manage plans across carriers from one pane. Driver: eSIM adoption
• Agentic OS - agents that automate the full procure-to-pay and operations workflow: planning, provisioning, NOC, support, reconciliation. Driver: AI adoption
• Dynamic pricing & optimization - real-time spot/dynamic pricing matching demand to operator supply: over-the-air profile switching, remote SIM management, plans created and changed on the fly. Driver: RSP & 5G network slicing.

Where we are today: Multi-million revenue pipeline, profitable, 20+ customers, 10+ operator partnerships, repeatable growth through inbound and outbound marketing. Selected for AIBoomi SGX 2025 (1 of 6, from 200+ applicants).

Why this is a large opportunity: Stripe made payments programmable, allowing almost any company to embed financial services through APIs. Shopify turned the complexity of building and operating an online store into accessible, self-service software. Spenza is doing the same for telecom: transforming a fragmented, operator-dependent and operations-heavy business into an API-first platform through which any enterprise, reseller or brand can launch and run mobile services. Agentic AI makes this shift possible now by automating provisioning, billing, support, reconciliation, and network operations that previously required large specialist teams.

Demand for the underlying platform is already proven. Cisco bought Jasper for $1.4B and Ericsson’s IoT platform (95M+ devices) went to Aeris. Incumbents can’t simply follow: their economics are built around those ops teams, so re-architecting cannibalizes their own cost base. We're agent-first, and we start with what is hardest to assemble already in hand: operator contracts, a brand, a live customer base, and our own in-house operations team, which becomes the platform's first deployment. We dogfood before we sell.

What you’d build:

• Fine-tune and adapt models on telecom data, including provisioning logs, network topologies, support transcripts, and carrier specs, where it outperforms prompting or RAG.
• Design the agent architecture for planning, provisioning, NOC anomaly detection, and support, with the guardrails and evaluations needed to run it safely in production.
• Deploy into a live environment. Our own operations team is the first customer, giving you real traffic and a tight feedback loop from day one, not a pilot you have to go find.

Who you are:

• A strong engineer from a Tier-1 institute (IIT / BITS / NIT or equivalent) who has shipped in a startup and is comfortable with ambiguity.
• At least 4-6 years of IC experience with startup stints.
• AI-native - you’ve fine-tuned/adapted models for generative AI workflows and built agentic systems.
• Full-stack in practice: data pipelines, model training and serving, and the product engineering to put agents in front of customers.

What you’ll gain:
Rare, compounding expertise in two fields at once: production agentic-AI deployment — fine-tuning, evals, guardrails, agents running real operations — plus deep telecom domain knowledge: billing, connectivity management, OSS/BSS, SIP/call management, SMS & number management, provisioning, and NOC.

The team, and what’s in it for you:
You’d work in our Bangalore office, alongside the founder Vinaychandra Bharadwaj (ex- Tejas Networks, ex MoneyView, MBA- IIMB). This is a founding-level seat: you own the AI direction and hire the team behind you.

Let’s talk. Email: [email protected]