Description
We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.
Shape the Future of Manufacturing with ATP
At Ford, we aren’t just building vehicles , we are redefining how the world moves. Within the Advanced Industrial Technology and Platforms (ATP) organization, we are the architects of Ford’s next industrial revolution.
Our mission is clear: we build and scale industrial platforms, technologies, and capabilities that unlock Ford Firsts to drive sustained competitive advantage in manufacturing. Driven by our vision to "build once, scale everywhere," we bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and global physical deployment.
Our guiding mantra is simple yet relentless: Scale what matters, win what's next.
If you are a high-tech builder, thinker, or innovator who thrives at the intersection of software, hardware, and massive scale, ATP is where you belong. Join us, and write the next chapter of industrial history.
In this position...
Plant teams lose hours each shift piecing together what went wrong: pulling data from separate systems, chasing history, and rebuilding context before they can fix anything. That groundwork is the job of AIR (Agentic Issue Resolution), ATP's AI system that helps plant teams investigate and fix production issues. AI agents take an issue, gather approved evidence from plant systems, connect it to what the plant already knows, and recommend a fix that a person reviews and approves. Each confirmed fix is saved so the next plant can reuse it.
Why it's important...
- AIR runs multiple investigation workflows on shared, reusable components.
- Investigations use authorized evidence and produce traceable recommendations a person can review.
- Plant teams spend less time rebuilding issue history and more time fixing problems.
- A fix confirmed at one plant is reused at the next without rework.
- The platform meets agreed security, reliability, and production-readiness standards.
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
Design the AIR Platform
- Define the architecture across user experience, workflow orchestration, agents, tools, knowledge, evaluation, and feedback.
- Build reusable components for issue intake, investigation planning, evidence retrieval, analysis, recommendations, and follow-up.
- Set how agents call tools and plant systems through approved, permissioned interfaces.
Make Every Investigation Evidence-First
- Retrieve authorized sources before drawing conclusions, separate evidence from inference, and show the source behind every claim.
- Work with plant experts to turn how they solve problems into modular, measurable workflows.
- Capture each validated fix as a reusable record the next plant can apply.
Build It to Run in a Plant
- Define APIs and data contracts with CoreMesh (our manufacturing knowledge graph), FPS+ (the digital version of the Ford Production System), and InZone (the mobile app supervisors use to run a shift).
- Build in identity, permissions, audit logging, human approval steps, and clear escalation when the system is unsure.
Set standards for testing, versioning, release, rollback, monitoring, and production support.
Lead the Engineering
- Lead the AI agent and evaluation engineers on the AIR team, run design reviews, and coach the data scientists building agents.
- Partner with MLOps and evaluation engineers to measure agent behavior before release and monitor it after.
Qualifications
You'll have...
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years building production software platforms or distributed systems, including technical leadership.
- Hands-on experience building applications on large language models: agent workflows, orchestration, retrieval, and tool integration.
- Strong API and service design, testing, and maintainable code in Python, TypeScript, Go, or Java.
- Experience designing secure systems with authorization, audit logging, and operational controls.
- Clear communication with engineering, data, security, and plant teams.
Even better, you may have...
- Manufacturing, quality, maintenance, or industrial operations experience.
- Knowledge graphs, ontologies, semantic search, or case-based reasoning.
- Event-driven systems, workflow engines, and production observability.
- Human-in-the-loop design for operational decisions.
- Google Cloud Platform experience.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
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, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day