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Slate Auto

VP – Distinguished Engineer, Generative AI Engineering

Slate Auto

. Envision, design, and ship Slate’s GenAI platform .

Posted 9/15/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $222,431 - $370,719 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in designing and deploying GenAI platforms, with a strong focus on production-scale systems, multi-agent architectures, and AI integration in manufacturing environments. Proven leadership in technical decision-making, team building, and establishing engineering standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords
15+ Years Engineering Experience5+ Years Shipping Production GenAI SystemsDeep Hands-On Experience with LLM APIsExperience with Agent Orchestration FrameworksProduction-Scale Open-Source Model Deployment

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Hard Skills
GenAI Platform DesignMulti-Agent System DeploymentPrompt EngineeringComputer Vision SystemsReal-Time Inference PipelinesData ArchitectureFine-Tuning Domain-Specific ModelsClosed-Loop Learning SystemsVector Database ExperienceSensor Fusion
Soft Skills
Technical LeadershipTeam BuildingCollaborationCommunication
Tools & Technologies
OpenAIAnthropicGeminiLangChainLlamaIndexAWSGCPAzureSnowflakeDatabricks
Certifications & Qualifications
BS RequiredMS or PhD Preferred
Industry Keywords
GenAIManufacturing AIRobotic Process ControlEvaluation FrameworksObservability PipelinesEdge Deployment ArchitecturesSecurity and Compliance ArchitecturePhysical Simulation EnvironmentsData StacksEnterprise-Scale AI Platforms

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformOpen Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Envision, design, and ship Slate’s GenAI platform
  • Make long-term architectural decisions for GenAI platforms, agentic systems, robot-to-model feedback loops, and embedded AI
  • Partner with Vehicle Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality to deploy measurable AI solutions
  • Design and own the end-to-end GenAI platform, including context, data, model serving, agent frameworks, and evaluation pipelines
  • Design AI systems for physical manufacturing, including agentic coordination and model personalization
  • Embed AI into manufacturing through robotic process control, computer vision, predictive maintenance, and closed-loop feedback
  • Build Slate’s proprietary data and context layer and unified data layer
  • Deploy production-grade AI agents across vehicle engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, software development, and GTM
  • Establish evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and observability practices
  • Recruit and grow GenAI engineers, MLOps engineers, and applied scientists
  • Review pull requests, make architecture decisions, and ship code alongside the team
  • Establish technical standards, engineering practices, and hiring standards
  • Contribute externally through open source, publications, or conference talks
  • Report directly to the Chief Digital and Operations Officer and participate on the senior technology leadership team

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 15+ years of engineering experience
  • 5+ years shipping production GenAI systems
  • 7+ years in a senior technical leadership role
  • Work recognized outside the candidate’s organization
  • BS required
  • Deep hands-on experience with LLM APIs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini
  • Production-scale open-source model deployment
  • Experience with vector databases
  • Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex
  • Prompt engineering for reliability
  • Fine-tuning and training purpose-built domain-specific models
  • Experience with GenAI evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and observability pipelines
  • Experience designing and deploying production multi-agent systems
  • Experience deploying AI systems on physical hardware or in industrial environments
  • Computer vision systems for manufacturing quality assurance
  • Closed-loop learning systems with physical-world outcomes
  • Robot-to-model feedback architectures
  • Familiarity with physical simulation environments such as Isaac Sim or MuJoCo
  • Sensor fusion and multimodal data handling
  • Real-time inference pipelines with hard latency constraints
  • Edge deployment architectures under intermittent connectivity
  • Data architecture using modern data stacks such as Snowflake, Databricks, and dbt
  • Vector stores and streaming data pipelines
  • Architecture-level cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Enterprise-scale AI platforms serving thousands of concurrent users
  • Multi-tenant model serving architectures
  • Security and compliance architecture for proprietary manufacturing IP
  • Platform engineering practices including SDKs, abstraction layers, and self-service tooling
  • MS or PhD in a relevant field preferred, not required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Vacation
  • 401k
  • Equity program eligibility
  • Discretionary annual incentive program eligibility
  • Reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities