Senior Staff Software Engineer OTA

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer OTA to work on the In-Vehicle OTA Platform, building software that keeps Ford's Universal Electric Vehicle fleet up to date.

The OTA software update service is a Rust application responsible for orchestrating vehicle software updates, managing complex multi-stage lifecycles across download, verification, installation, and activation across many ECUs.

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the OTA software update engine
• Design and implement reliable, safe update orchestration logic
• Write production-quality async Rust with a focus on correctness, safety, and maintainability
• Build and contribute to cutting-edge developer tooling that lets engineers create and manage software update deployments
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, container infrastructure, and multi-target build systems
• Participate in code review with a high signal-to-noise bar: focus on correctness and reliability
• Collaborate across embedded firmware, vehicle software, and cloud infrastructure teams to coordinate update flows end-to-end

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years writing production Rust, or strong, demonstrable C++ expertise with a clear appetite to work in Rust
• Strong command of async programming, including the Tokio runtime and concurrent system design
• Solid Linux systems experience–you are comfortable developing, debugging, and operating software in Linux environments
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing state machines for distributed or embedded systems
• Strong testing discipline: unit, integration, and mock-driven testing
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and modern build systems
• Excellent written communication , you write documentation your teammates actually read

Benefits:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, 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
• 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