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Job description
SkyPilot is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer — a full-time, based in San Mateo, CA role. Apply directly on SkyPilot's careers page below.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: San Mateo, CA
Department: Engineering
Location Type: IN_OFFICE
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
About SkyPilot
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."
SkyPilot (10k+ GitHub stars, 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.
The role
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.
What you'll do
- 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.
What we're looking for
- 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.
What we offer
- Competitive compensation and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage for you and your dependents
- The chance to work with some of the best minds in cloud, distributed, and AI systems — with significant autonomy and ownership.
- A front-row seat at the latest open-source infra startup from Berkeley (lineage: Databricks, Anyscale).
- Gourmet lunch & dinner for the team to do their best work
Location: San Mateo, CA. Remote will be considered for exceptional candidates.
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Frequently asked questions
What skills are required for Forward Deployed Engineer at SkyPilot?
The required skills for Forward Deployed Engineer at SkyPilot include: Python, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, Linux, Machine Learning, AI.
What is the seniority level for Forward Deployed Engineer at SkyPilot?
Forward Deployed Engineer at SkyPilot is a Senior level position.
How do I apply for Forward Deployed Engineer at SkyPilot?
You can view the full description and apply for Forward Deployed Engineer at SkyPilot on EchoJobs: https://echojobs.io/job/skypilot-forward-deployed-engineer-z9sdz.