--- title: 'Developer Relations Engineer at SkyPilot' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/developer-relations-engineer-skypilot-san-mateo-sw1asm63sxv5' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Developer Relations Engineer at SkyPilot - **Company:** SkyPilot - **Location:** San Mateo, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/skypilot/am9icG9zdDrThdQblzsiT2Fg63t-58gw ## Job description ## 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](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot), 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 grew on the strength of its developer community — the engineers who found it, ran it, and told the next team about it. We're hiring a Developer Relations Engineer to grow that community the way engineers respect: by building. You'll work in the open on real demos, example apps, wrappers, and integrations (e.g., Autoresearch), plus the technical content and talks that teach engineers how to run AI infrastructure well. You turn SkyPilot's engineering into things developers can run, learn from, and build on. ## What you'll do - Build in the open: write demos, example apps, wrappers, and integrations that show developers what SkyPilot makes possible, with working code they can run. - Create technical content: write the tutorials, deep-dives, and docs that teach engineers how to run AI infrastructure well, and get them in front of the right communities. - Show up where developers are: talks, workshops, GitHub, forums, and conferences, as a credible engineer the community trusts. - Close the loop with product: carry what the community struggles with back to engineering, and help shape the open-source surface. ## What we're looking for - You're an engineer who loves to teach: you can build a real project and then explain it in a way developers trust. - Strong coding ability (Python and/or Go), enough to build wrappers, demos, and integrations yourself. - You know cloud, Kubernetes, and/or GPU and ML workflows well enough to be credible with infrastructure engineers. - A track record of public technical work: content, talks, open source, example projects, or an audience you've built. - You are energized by developer community and open-source. ## 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. ## About SkyPilot ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: SkyPilot provides a unified AI compute platform that turns fragmented GPU clusters across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and on-premises resources into a single, manageable “AI supercomputer.” - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $20M) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available (company launched from stealth in July 2026; technology originated from UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab) - **Founders**: Zongheng Yang (CEO), Zhanghao Wu, Romil Bhardwaj, alongside Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica and networking pioneer Scott Shenker (both Berkeley professors) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / cloud computing orchestration - **Target customers**: Frontier AI teams – including research labs, foundation model builders, healthcare, financial services, and large enterprises – that need to manage large-scale GPU fleets across multiple providers. - **Mission / Purpose**: “Turn fragmented compute into one AI supercomputer” so that AI teams can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building intelligence. ## Products & Services - **[SkyPilot Platform (Managed)](https://skypilot.ai)**: A managed control plane that abstracts heterogeneous compute (Kubernetes, Slurm, VMs, hyperscalers, neoclouds) into a single pool. Supports interactive development, pre‑training at scale, sandboxes for RL/agents, multi‑cluster serving, and production workloads. Includes GPU health monitoring, auto‑remediation, HA, quota management, SSO, RBAC, and SOC 2 compliance. Customers have seen up to 20x performance improvements over the open‑source version. - **[SkyPilot Open Source](https://skypilot.ai)**: Free, community‑driven project with 14M+ downloads and 280+ contributors. Used by hundreds of organizations to unify compute across 20+ clouds. Provides CLI, intelligent scheduler, GPU monitoring, and multi‑cluster support. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (seed round) - **Key Metric (Private)**: **Total Funding** – $20M seed (July 2026) - **Notable Investors & Partners**: - Lead: Lux Capital - Participants: Amplify Partners, Coatue Management, Foundation Capital, Race Capital, The House Fund - Angel operators: Ali Ghodsi (Databricks), Jeff Dean (Google), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Clem Delangue (Hugging Face), Tristan Handy (dbt Labs) - Cloud partners: Nebius, CoreWeave, Lambda, AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, SageMaker Hyperpod) - **Growth Signals**: - 14M+ open‑source downloads (6M in last 3 months) - GPU hours consumed grew 35% MoM (6x in last 6 months) - Top deployments: 1,000+ nodes and 10,000+ GPUs - 280+ open‑source contributors - Adopted by Nubank, Abridge, Applied Compute, H Company, Archer, Hippocratic AI ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified abstraction** across 20+ clouds and any accelerator – customers are not locked into a single provider. - **AI‑native scheduling** (topology‑aware, priority queueing, GPU sharing, preemption) that maximizes fleet utilization. - **Proactive GPU health checks** with auto‑remediation – reduces downtime in large training runs. - **Enterprise‑grade security** (BYOC, BYOK, private VPCs, air‑gapped, SOC 2) combined with the agility of an open‑source ecosystem. - **World‑class founding team** – includes a Databricks co‑founder and UC Berkeley systems researchers. ## Strategic Focus - **Product development** – continue building out the managed platform (already 20x faster than OSS). - **Engineering expansion** – actively hiring in engineering and go‑to‑market roles. - **Go‑to‑market growth** – opening platform access to select new customers; scaling sales. - **Open‑source ecosystem** – deepen contributions and community engagement. ## Why Work Here - **Cutting‑edge mission**: Building the foundational infrastructure for the AI industry alongside top hyperscalers and neoclouds. - **Strong team**: Founded by renowned systems researchers and backed by elite investors and AI leaders. - **Traction & growth**: Explosive adoption (6x growth in GPU hours) and a clear product‑market fit with frontier AI teams. - **Autonomy & impact**: Small, fast‑moving startup where engineers can directly shape a control plane used by thousands of GPUs. - **Work policy** – not publicly specified, but typical for a stealth‑stage startup; likely offers flexibility. The team is headquartered in San Francisco. - **Careers**: Open roles in Engineering and GTM (see [SkyPilot on Gem](https://jobs.gem.com/skypilot)). ## Sources 1. [skypilot.ai (homepage)](https://skypilot.ai) 2. [skypilot.ai (about)](https://skypilot.ai/about) 3. [skypilot.ai (funding announcement blog)](https://skypilot.ai/blog/skypilot-the-company) 4. [fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/skypilot-from-databricks-cofounder-raises-20m-to-be-the-switzerland-of-ai-compute/) 5. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/skypilot-launches-with-20m-to-accelerate-custom-intelligence-for-frontier-ai-teams-302830808.html) ## Other roles at SkyPilot - [GTM Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/gtm-specialist-skypilot-san-mateo-c1js372pj0j0) — San Mateo, CA - [Product Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-manager-skypilot-san-mateo-ac5fset49yp9) — San Mateo, CA - [Member of Technical Staff, Product](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-product-skypilot-san-mateo-3fvgs8gy6hqw) — San Mateo, CA - [Member of Technical Staff, Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-platform-skypilot-san-mateo-4efm1nkm0rsp) — San Mateo, CA - [Member of Technical Staff, GPU / ML Systems](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-gpu-ml-systems-skypilot-san-mateo-cjcq4ysp96ka) — San Mateo, CA - [General Application](https://feeny.ai/job/general-application-skypilot-san-mateo-jht04k9gw4xr) — San Mateo, CA - [Founding Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-account-executive-skypilot-san-mateo-jxym4wpcxwb5) — San Mateo, CA - [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-skypilot-san-mateo-eyv68cyw4ghc) — San Mateo, CA - [Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-distributed-systems-skypilot-san-mateo-g32j2zaakscz) — San Mateo, CA - [Developer Relations Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/developer-relations-engineer-prefect-remote-z15c445desx2)