Pilot runners: Error response from daemon: container is not running

Failing job in gitlab-runner when attempting to migrate gitlab-runners to pilot runners - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/jobs/13323058794

step-runner is ready.
Uploading artifacts for failed job
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Uploading artifacts...
WARNING: gl-sast-report.json: no matching files. Ensure that the artifact path is relative to the working directory (/builds/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner) 
ERROR: No files to upload                          
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
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ERROR: Job failed: executing steps request: run request failed for job "13323058794": rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = latest balancer error: connection error: desc = "transport: Error while dialing: Error response from daemon: container ce14a95207e81f4201781f99b3af17813241b1689d22bffc9e96b375eb0f3326 is not running (steps.go:126:0s)"