Systems Engineer
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.
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.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are seeking a Manufacturing Systems Engineer who sits at the intersection of the factory floor and the software development team. This is a hands-on engineering position that requires equal parts technical depth and business process understanding. You will write production code, own features end-to-end, and in the same week sit with an assembly line supervisor to understand why a process is not working and translate that into a system improvement. We are looking for someone who is energized by solving real manufacturing problems through code, who thrives in ambiguity, and who measures success by what ships rather than what is documented.
WHAT YOU GET TO DO?
Embed directly with manufacturing operations, quality, and logistics teams to understand their processes and build technical solutions.
Develop and maintain Go microservices , Python FastAPIs and React front ends within the FactoryOS platform, owning features from technical design through production deployment
Translate complex, often ambiguous manufacturing requirements into clean, testable code using clean architecture.
Lead root cause analysis on production system issues, determining whether the fix is code, configuration, process, or a combination, and then delivering it.
Define and instrument key metrics for manufacturing system performance; identify improvement opportunities and build the features to capture them.
Write meaningful tests — unit, integration, and end-to-end — and take personal accountability for the quality of your own deliverables.
Actively participate in sprint planning, design reviews, and retrospectives as a contributing member of the team.
Partner with OT engineers, ERP and PLM teams, as well as QMS and CMMS stakeholders to ensure integration points are correctly specified and implemented.
Champion continuous improvement of both the manufacturing systems and the development process.
Document system behaviour, data flows, and operational runbooks to a standard that makes the system maintainable by anyone on the team, not just its original author.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM
3–7 years of software engineering experience with meaningful production exposure to Python and Go or a comparable statically typed language; a demonstrated ability to ramp Go/Python quickly if coming from another language such as Java or C# .NET."
Solid React and TypeScript front-end experience, with ability to build and maintain production-quality UI components independently without front-end specialists to lean on.
Posted July 27, 2026