Forward Deployed Engineer at SkyPilot
United States
<h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">About SkyPilot</span></h2><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SkyPilot accelerates the world's most ambitious AI teams. Every hour they spend fighting infrastructure is an hour the frontier doesn't move — so SkyPilot turns fragmented compute across clusters into one optimized, highly available and easy-to-use pool: a single "AI supercomputer."</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SkyPilot (</span><a href="https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">10k+ GitHub stars</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, 14M+ downloads) is deployed at 100s of companies — from Fortune 500s to top AI-natives like Abridge, Applied Compute, Mistral, Unconventional AI, H Company, and Nubank — with usage growing exponentially. Born in the UC Berkeley lab behind Spark and Databricks, our growing team includes top-tier talent from Databricks, Google, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, and Cornell.</span></div><div><br></div><h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The role</span></h2><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SkyPilot powers frontier AI teams and enterprises that run our platform inside their own clouds, Kubernetes clusters, and data centers. We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with them end to end — deploying and integrating SkyPilot, shaping how their workflows map onto it (and how SkyPilot adapts to them), and solving the hard problems that stand between a customer and production. You'll own the technical side of making customers wildly successful. You're the person a frontier team leans on to get SkyPilot running in their own infrastructure.</span></div><div><br></div><h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What you'll do</span></h2><div><br></div><ul><li class=""><strong style="background-color: transparent;">Partner with the teams building frontier AI</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;">: work hands-on with foundation labs and AI-natives to architect and deploy their production workloads on SkyPilot — across cloud, VPC, Kubernetes, and on-prem.</span></li><li class=""><strong style="background-color: transparent;">Lead discovery and sales</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;">: design compelling sales demos, run the technical deep-dives that turn a customer's goals into a design they can ship, and build trust with the engineers and technical leaders — CTOs, VPs of Engineering, ML leads — driving the work.</span></li><li class=""><strong style="background-color: transparent;">Fit SkyPilot to the customer — and the customer to SkyPilot</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;">: adapt their workflows to run well on SkyPilot, shape the product to how they work, and turn each engagement into a repeatable playbook.</span></li><li class=""><strong style="background-color: transparent;">Bring the field back to the product</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;">: unblock the hard infrastructure problems in production, and carry customer signal back to the core engineering team.</span></li></ul><h2><br></h2><h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What we're looking for</span></h2><div><br></div><ul><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">You've deployed and integrated complex infrastructure or platform software into real customer environments, and you thrive in ambiguity.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Strong systems and cloud fundamentals — comfortable across clouds, Kubernetes, and Linux, and able to debug someone else's environment.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Strong Python (or similar) — enough to build the glue, tooling, and integrations a deployment needs.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Genuinely customer-facing: you communicate clearly, build trust, and turn messy requirements into shipped solutions — you want to be where the product meets the real world.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience as a forward-deployed or field engineer, familiarity with GPU / ML workloads and the tools to train and serve them, or a developer-facing / open-source background.</span></li></ul><div><br></div><h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What we offer</span></h2><div><br></div><ul><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Competitive compensation and equity</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage for you and your dependents</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">The chance to work with some of the best minds in cloud, distributed, and AI systems — with significant autonomy and ownership.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">A front-row seat at the latest open-source infra startup from Berkeley (lineage: Databricks, Anyscale).</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);">Gourmet lunch & dinner for the team to do their best work</span></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Location:</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> San Mateo, CA. Remote will be considered for exceptional candidates.</span></div>
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