VP-Distinguished Engineer of Generative AI Engineering
Slate Magazine1 day ago
Troy, MI, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$222k - $371k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and ship Slate’s end-to-end Generative AI platform, including context, data, model-serving, agent-framework, and evaluation layers.
- Lead by building: write code, review pull requests, make architecture decisions, and ship production systems alongside the team.
- Recruit, grow, and lead a lean team of GenAI engineers, MLOps engineers, and applied scientists.
- Deploy GenAI agents across vehicle engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, software development, and go-to-market functions.
- Build the proprietary context and data layers that capture organizational decisions and support purpose-built models.
- Partner with Vehicle Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality teams to embed AI into factory-floor, design-tooling, and supply-chain workflows.
- Establish AI-first engineering standards, practices, and culture.
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years building and shipping production Generative AI systems and 5+ years in a senior technical leadership capacity.
- Deep hands-on experience with LLM APIs, open-source model deployment, vector databases, agent orchestration frameworks, and prompt engineering at scale.
- Experience taking GenAI systems from prototype to production, including evaluation frameworks, guardrails, observability, and continuous improvement loops.
- Experience fine-tuning and training purpose-built models for domain-specific tasks and evaluating hosted APIs, open-source models, and custom training approaches.
- Experience with modern data stacks including Snowflake, Databricks, and dbt.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure and the ability to reason about cost, latency, and data architecture.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field is required.
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401(k) benefits are offered.
- The successful candidate may be eligible for equity participation and/or a discretionary annual incentive program.
- Annual base pay range is $222,431.00–$370,719.00.
- Slate is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified applicants.
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About Slate Magazine
Slate is a digital magazine that covers politics, culture, technology, and current events through reported articles, analysis, newsletters, and a large slate of podcasts. Founded in 1996, it is published by The Slate Group, a unit of Graham Holdings, with offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Its business model combines advertising with reader revenue, including the Slate Plus membership program for bonus content and ad-free podcasts.