Engineering Manager, AI Infrastructure & Platform

SkyPilot Cloud Consulting Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Autonomy and ownership

Open-source infra startup experience

Gourmet lunch & dinner

Job summary

SkyPilot Cloud Consulting Inc. is hiring its first Engineering Manager to grow and scale our engineering team. You will report to the CTO and work closely with founders to shape product direction while staying hands-on.

You’ll lead distributed systems and AI infrastructure efforts, review customer requests, and translate them into prioritized roadmaps. You’ll interact with major customers and drive high-impact outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years managing engineers (teams of 10+).
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms in production.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes or Slurm; familiar with GPU workloads and AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a distributed systems engineering team, coaching engineers.
• Shape product directions and drive roadmap with founders and stakeholders.
• Ensure reliability, security, and operational standards for the control plane.
• Review design, code, and architecture decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Kubernetes

AI infrastructure

Product management

Tools

Slurm

RBAC

Terraform

Job description

SkyPilot Cloud Consulting Inc. is hiring its first Engineering Manager to grow and scale our engineering team. You will report to the CTO and work closely with founders to shape product direction while staying hands-on.

You’ll lead distributed systems and AI infrastructure efforts, review customer requests, and translate them into prioritized roadmaps. You’ll interact with major customers and drive high-impact outcomes.