Frontier AI Deployment Engineer

SkyPilot Cloud Consulting Inc.; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & equity

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

Company 401(k) plan

Autonomy and ownership

Open-source infra startup from UC Berk

Gourmet lunch & dinner

Job summary

SkyPilot accelerates AI compute across clusters, turning fragmented resources into a single optimized pool. We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customers end-to-end, deploying SkyPilot in their clouds, Kubernetes clusters, and data centers.

You’ll map workflows to SkyPilot, drive production deployments, and solve hard problems that keep customers from production readiness. You’ll own the technical success, partnering with frontier AI teams and guiding engineers and leaders

Qualifications

• You've deployed and integrated complex infrastructure or platform software into real customer environments, and you thrive in ambiguity.
• Strong systems and cloud fundamentals — comfortable across clouds, Kubernetes, and Linux, and able to debug someone else’s environment.
• Strong Python (or similar) — enough to build the glue, tooling, and integrations a deployment needs.
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Partner with frontier AI teams to architect and deploy production workloads on SkyPilot across cloud, Kubernetes, and on-prem.
• Lead discovery and sales through technical demos and deep-dives with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and ML leads.
• Fit SkyPilot to customer workflows and turn engagements into repeatable playbooks.
• Bring customer feedback to product to unblock infrastructure challenges in production.

Skills

Python

Customer-facing

Linux

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

SkyPilot accelerates AI compute across clusters, turning fragmented resources into a single optimized pool. We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customers end-to-end, deploying SkyPilot in their clouds, Kubernetes clusters, and data centers.

You’ll map workflows to SkyPilot, drive production deployments, and solve hard problems that keep customers from production readiness. You’ll own the technical success, partnering with frontier AI teams and guiding engineers and leaders