# Software Release Systems Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,600-$166,600
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As a Software Release Systems Engineer at Ford Motor Company, you will serve as a technical linchpin, driving the end-to-end delivery of robust software releasing solutions across multiple deployment environments.

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical leadership throughout the Vehicle Software Update delivery cycle, ensuring all milestones are met with high-quality engineering standards

- Own the system-level design and define the overarching architecture

- Decompose high-level requirements into logical component responsibilities and define precise integration points between vehicle nodes and cloud components

- Author, release, and manage detailed technical specifications in JAMA

- Communicate and explain complex requirements to partners

- Perform early-stage bring-up and prototype proofs-of-concept (PoCs) to support incremental sprint deliveries and validate design assumptions

- Sign off on the correctness and completeness of test plans

- Conduct physical vehicle testing using CAN, Ethernet, and other diagnostic tools

- Monitor requirement fulfillment and track deviations throughout development

- Lead issue triaging and provide expert support to downstream teams

- Analyze complex system failures to identify root causes and define resolution and prevention strategies

- Facilitate and participate in Technical Design Reviews (TDRs), project meetings, and high-level presentations for business and technical audiences

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Computer, or Systems Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- At least 5 years of experience in system-level design within complex environments

- At least 2 years of direct experience with software release processes for vehicles (OTA, Service, or Manufacturing) or networked embedded systems

- At least 2 years of direct experience with developer operations pipelines, software release management processes, and/or embedded software deployment systems

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- 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

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays

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## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Software Release Processes
- Embedded Systems
- CAN
- Ethernet

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
- Modern software development practices
- Coding standards
- Source control management (Git)
- Build processes
- Full-lifecycle testing and operations
- Automotive communication protocols

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