Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs both on-prem and cloud native. You will work on a Balanced Product Team and collaborate with the Product Manager, Product Designer, and other Software Engineers to deliver analytic solutions.

Responsibilities

• Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases.
• Author process and design documents.
• Work with the Business Customer, Product Owner, Architects, Product Designer, Software Engineers, and Security Controls Champion on solution design, development, and deployment.
• Generate metrics, perform user access authorization, perform password maintenance, and build deployment pipelines.
• Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change, and service request-related activities, including root cause analysis (RCA) and proactive problem management/defect prevention activities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable and robust software solutions that integrate and leverage state-of-the-art Generative AI models (e.g., LLMs, Diffusion Models) into production systems and applications.
• Build and optimize the infrastructure, pipelines, and tools necessary for efficient training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and serving of Generative AI models, ensuring high performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• 1+ year of experience with developing for and deploying to cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, Azure).
• Implement and optimize cloud services and tools (e.g., Terraform, BigQuery, GCP).
• 2+ years of REST API or related development.
• 2+ years of experience in development using a combination of the following technologies:
• Languages: Java, JS, TS, Python
• Frontend frameworks: Angular, React
• Backend frameworks: Spring Boot, Node
• Proven experience understanding, practicing, and advocating for software engineering disciplines from Clean Code, Software Artmanship, and Lean, including:
• Paired/Mobbing programming
• Test-first/Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Evolutionary design
• Minimum Viable Product
• Willingness to collaborate daily with team members.
• A strong curiosity around how to best use technology to amaze and delight our customers.
• Using CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., Tekton, Jenkins, GIT Action, Cloud Build, etc.).

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, 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
• 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.

Salary

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $113,580 to $190,500.