Ford is seeking a Software Engineer to be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs across on-premises and cloud-native environments. You will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, collaborating closely with a Balanced Product Team.
What You'll Do
- Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases.
- Participate in daily stand-up operations meetings.
- Author process and design documents.
- Work with stakeholders including the Business Customer, Product Owner, Architects, and Product Designer on solution design, development, and deployment.
- Generate metrics, perform user access authorization and password maintenance, and build deployment pipelines.
- Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change, and service request activities including root cause analysis and proactive defect prevention.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable software solutions that integrate Generative AI models (e.g., LLMs) into production systems.
- Experience building and optimizing infrastructure, pipelines, and tools for training, fine-tuning, and serving Generative AI models.
- 1+ year of experience developing for and deploying to cloud platforms like GCP or Azure.
- Experience implementing and optimizing cloud services and tools like Terraform and BigQuery.
- 2+ years of REST API or related development.
- 2+ years of experience using a combination of languages (Java / JS / TS / Python), frontend frameworks (Angular / React), and backend frameworks (Spring Boot / Node).
- Proven experience with software engineering disciplines: Paired/Mobbing programming, Test-driven Development (TDD), evolutionary design, and Minimum Viable Product.
- Willingness to collaborate daily with team members.
- Strong curiosity about using technology to amaze and delight customers.
- Experience using CI/CD tools and pipelines like Tekton, Jenkins, GIT Action, or Cloud Build.
Nice to Have
- Full-stack development experience.
- Highly effective working with other technical experts, Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, and business stakeholders.
- Experience delivering products involving web front-end development with JavaScript, CSS, and frameworks like Angular.
- Comfort with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and pipelines.
- Experience with machine learning, mathematical modeling, and data analysis.
- Experience with Agile tools like CA Agile Central (Rally, JIRA) for backlogs, iterations, and user stories.
- Experience developing microservices.
- Understanding of fundamental data modeling.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Java, JS, TS, Python
- Frontend: Angular, React
- Backend: Spring Boot, Node
- Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP, Azure, Terraform, BigQuery
- CI/CD: Tekton, Jenkins, GIT Action, Cloud Build
Team & Environment
You will work on a Balanced Product Team, collaborating directly with a Product Manager, Product Designer, and other Software Engineers to deliver analytic solutions.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $113,580 - $190,500
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
- Tuition assistance.
- Established and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service.
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Work Mode
This position follows a hybrid work model.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.
