diff --git a/rainfallwrangler/slurm-jsonl2tfrecord.job b/rainfallwrangler/slurm-jsonl2tfrecord.job
index bda994e..cdfd719 100755
--- a/rainfallwrangler/slurm-jsonl2tfrecord.job
+++ b/rainfallwrangler/slurm-jsonl2tfrecord.job
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ echo ">>> Settings";
 
 echo "INPUT $INPUT";
 
+echo ">>> Installing requirements";
+cd ../aimodel || { echo "Error: Failed to cd to ai model directory"; exit 1; };
+conda run -n py38 pip install -r requirements.txt;
+cd ../rainfallwrangler || { echo "Error: Failed to cd back to rainfallwrangler directory"; exit 1; };
 echo ">>> Converting dataset .jsonl.gz → .tfrecord.gz";
 /usr/bin/env time -v src/index.mjs jsonl2tfrecord --verbose --source "${INPUT}" --target "${OUTPUT}";
 echo ">>> exited with code $?";