Frontier AI Deployment Engineer (Remote-Eligible)

SkyPilot Cloud Consulting Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

Company 401(k) plan

Autonomy and ownership

Open-source startup culture

Gourmet team meals

Job summary

SkyPilot Cloud Consulting Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with frontier AI teams, deploying SkyPilot across cloud, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments to ensure production readiness.

You will own customer engagements from discovery to deployment, translate complex requirements into working solutions, and feed customer experiences back to product, with opportunities for equity and broad autonomy.

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 the teams building frontier AI: 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.
• Lead discovery and sales: 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.
• Fit SkyPilot to the customer - and the customer to SkyPilot: adapt their workflows to run well on SkyPilot, shape the product to how they work, and turn each engagement into a repeatable playbook.
• Bring the field back to the product: unblock the hard infrastructure problems in production, and carry customer signal back to the core engineering team.

Skills

Infrastructure deployment

Cloud fundamentals

Python

Customer-facing

Forward-deployed / field engineer

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

SkyPilot Cloud Consulting Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with frontier AI teams, deploying SkyPilot across cloud, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments to ensure production readiness.

You will own customer engagements from discovery to deployment, translate complex requirements into working solutions, and feed customer experiences back to product, with opportunities for equity and broad autonomy.