[Hiring] AI/ML Engineer @Slate Auto

Role Description

Slate Automotive is building an AI-native vehicle platform from the ground up. This role is for an engineer ready to work on real AI/ML problems in production: GenAI features, data pipelines, and AI applied to manufacturing and supply chain operations.

What You Will Do:

• Build and ship AI/ML features.
• Work across the model lifecycle: data preparation, training or fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. Own features end-to-end and iterate based on real production feedback.
• Contribute to GenAI systems.
• Build RAG pipelines, work with LLM APIs and open-source models, design prompts for reliability, and contribute to agentic workflows.
• Build data and evaluation infrastructure.
• Write data pipelines, labeling workflows, and evaluation frameworks. Reliable evals are a first-class deliverable on this team.
• Work on manufacturing, supply chain, and physical operations problems.
• Collaborate across the organization.

Qualifications

• Technically grounded in ML.
• Interested in physical and operational AI.
• A fast learner.
• Hands-on.
• Collaborative and clear.

Requirements

• A PhD in a relevant field is a strong foundation for someone early in their career.
• 3+ years of professional or research experience working directly on ML systems for candidates without a PhD.
• Foundational understanding of ML: model training, loss functions, evaluation metrics, overfitting, and regularization.
• Practical experience with: supervised learning, NLP, computer vision, and time-series modeling.
• Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar).
• Basic exposure to RAG, embeddings, or retrieval systems.
• Ability to evaluate model quality rigorously.
• Python proficiency: comfortable with the ML stack (PyTorch or JAX, Hugging Face, pandas, scikit-learn).
• Ability to write production-quality code.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Version control, experiment tracking, and basic MLOps practices.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• Vacation and 401k.
• Eligibility to participate in the equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program.

Company Description

At Slate, we’re building safe, reliable vehicles that people can afford, personalize and love—and doing it here in the USA as part of our commitment to reindustrialization. The spirit of DIY and customization runs throughout every element of a Slate, because people should have control over how their trucks look, feel, and represent them.

Slate is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason.

Slate is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures.