The Role
Lead technical planning, break projects into actionable tasks, drive execution from ideation to production, mentor engineers, and own architecture and technology decisions for open-source and product roadmaps.
Summary Generated by Built In
SkyPilot is building the future of multicloud AI infra. We are the Berkeley founding team commercializing SkyPilot (9.5K+ GitHub stars, 200+contributors), to enable AI to run on different cloud infrastructures in a portable, cost-optimizing, and highly available way.
SkyPilot is deployed at 100s of companies, including Fortune 500s and top AI-natives (Shopify, Redis, Abridge, Hippocratic, Applied Compute, etc.). In 2025, adoption grew >600%, now launching more GPUs per month than the biggest neocloud’s fleet. Currently in stealth, SkyPilot is founded in 2024 by UC Berkeley PhDs and professors (incl. Databricks cofounders). We’re building a top-tier engineering team, with current talent from Databricks, Google, Crusoe, ByteDance, and PingCap.
As a Technical Lead, you are a hands-on, seasoned engineer who will transform ambitious product roadmaps into delivered engineering milestones:
- Lead technical planning and execution: Break down projects into actionable tasks, establish technical roadmaps, and drive projects from ideation to production. Lead and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, while excited by hands-on execution.
- Own architectural decisions: Make critical decisions for an ambitious open-source & product roadmap, spanning architectural designs and technology choices.
- 2+ years of Tech Lead experience leading multiple engineers through complete project lifecycles, with clear impact.
- 6+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud platforms, or large-scale backend services.
- Colleagues describe you as having both excellent execution skills and great product and business sense.
- Experience leading small-to-medium sized engineering teams; Ability to clearly communicate clearly and drive engineering excellence.
- Experience with cloud infra technologies: e.g., gRPC, Protobuf, AWS / GCP / Azure / neoclouds, Kubernetes, Terraform, load balancers, container orchestration, etc.
What We Offer
- Competitive equity, compensation, and health benefits.
- Chance to work with some of the best minds in cloud, distributed, and AI systems, with significant autonomy and ownership.
- Front-row seat at the latest open-source infra startup from Berkeley.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of Tech Lead experience leading multiple engineers through complete project lifecycles
- 6+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud platforms, or large-scale backend services
- Experience leading small-to-medium sized engineering teams and driving engineering excellence
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure technologies: gRPC, Protobuf, AWS, GCP, Azure, neoclouds, Kubernetes, Terraform, load balancers, and container orchestration
- Strong execution, product and business sense, and clear communication skills
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The Company
What We Do
SkyPilot is an open-source framework designed to run, manage, and scale AI, machine learning, and data science workloads on any AI infrastructure. It provides teams with a unified interface to launch jobs across various clouds and regions, automating compute selection and cost optimization to reduce expenses and simplify the management of complex cloud resources without requiring deep infrastructure expertise.
