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We amplify the judgment of revenue teams by surfacing more good decisions than any team has time to find on its own. Our airline business is live in production with major carriers, and we are now building the equivalent capability for hospitality. This role delivers it, hotel by hotel and brand by brand.\nThe Role\nForward deployed engineers at telos ship working AI inside client environments. As Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you sit at the intersection of hotel revenue management practice and applied AI engineering. You embed with hotel commercial teams, own end-to-end delivery on their real data and real systems and stay until revenue managers trust the output enough to act on it.\nThe hard part of AI in hospitality is not the model. It is the workflow around it: whether revenue managers trust the system, whether it fits how commercial decisions get made, and whether it holds up under the operational pressure of running a hotel portfolio. You have lived that pressure, from the engineering side, the commercial side, or ideally both, and you know how to build for it.\nYou start as a senior individual contributor with full ownership of client deployments and grow into building the forward deployed engineering team as the hospitality business scales.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn client deployments end to end: scope the engagement, integrate with the client’s PMS, CRS, RMS, and distribution stack, ship the models, and drive adoption inside the revenue organization.\nDesign and ship agentic workflows that revenue managers actually adopt rather than second-guess.\nTranslate deep hotel revenue management practice into decision logic, validating that agent recommendations match the judgment of seasoned revenue managers and directors.\nWork on-site and remotely with client product, engineering, and commercial leadership to integrate cleanly with hotel systems of record and distribution.\nDefine the methodology and metrics standards each deployment is held to, ensuring rigor in how performance is framed and measured.\nRepresent telos credibly with brand-level revenue and commercial leaders, the EVPs and heads of revenue who buy and rely on this work.\nBuild, mentor, and lead the forward deployed engineering team as the function scales.\nWho You Are\nYou combine hands-on technical delivery with real commercial domain depth. Strong candidates come from one of two paths, and the best come from both:\nEngineering side: a senior technical leader with production experience building and deploying machine learning, forecasting, optimization, and agentic AI, ideally in client-facing or embedded delivery roles.\nCommercial side: experience as a revenue analyst, revenue manager, or revenue director at a large hotel brand, owning real pricing and inventory decisions across multi-property portfolios.\nRequired: Hotel Systems Fluency\nDemonstrated, hands-on familiarity with the systems hotel revenue teams actually run on, such as:\nRevenue management systems (RMS): IDeaS, Duetto, Revenue Analytics, or equivalent, deployed in production at scale.\nProperty management systems (PMS): Oracle OPERA or equivalent.\nCentral reservation systems (CRS): Amadeus ACRS, Sabre SynXis, or equivalent.\nBI and rate-shopping tools: Lighthouse, STR, Kalibri, Amadeus BI, or equivalent.\nFull command of the hotel revenue management metric set and the methodological distinctions that matter\nRequired: Technical and Delivery\nDeep lived experience across hotel system engineering or hotel revenue management roles (not back-office IT), pairing senior leadership with hands-on execution.\nPractical experience with major hotel industry APIs such as Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP), OpenTravel Alliance (OTA) specs, and Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) specs.\nProduction experience with SQL, Python and modern ML and optimization tooling; comfort across cloud AI services (AWS, Azure, GCP).\nTrack record of shipping AI that fits real commercial workflows and earns analyst trust under operational pressure.\nStrong communicator able to move fluently between revenue teams, engineers, and brand-level executives, with a practitioner’s credibility in the room.\nDesired\nExperience with agentic AI, RAG, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) architectures.\nDepth in distribution and channel strategy: OTA and wholesale contracting, channel mix and drift, direct-booking optimization.\nExperience with customer insights, loyalty, and segmentation analytics.\nA revenue management certification (e.g., CRME) and continuing industry leadership presence.\nEqual Opportunity\ntelos is an equal opportunity employer. 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