# Product Group Anchor

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford is seeking a Product Group Anchor, a senior engineer who is the hands-on technical constant within a single product group in the Industrial Systems Analytics (ISA) portfolio.

The Product Group Anchor will be responsible for turning organizational strategy into well-built, well-tested, working software. This is a deeply execution-focused role that requires strong communication skills and the ability to stay productive in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities:

- Build, test, and ship high-quality Java/Python backends and Angular/React frontends within the product group.

- Make sound design and implementation decisions within the product group's systems.

- Apply and uphold established best practices, such as branching strategies, code review, and DevSecOps workflows.

- Use modern AI coding agents and spec-driven development in daily workflow to accelerate delivery and produce high-quality artifacts.

- Build agentic capabilities on top of current and emerging data platform features.

- Model good engineering within the group and help teammates level up through pairing, code review, and sharing knowledge.

- Weigh the cost and performance implications of technical choices.

- Explain technical work clearly to teammates and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

- 7+ years of professional software development experience as a hands-on contributor.

- Expertise in Java and Python (backend) and Angular or React (frontend).

- Competence with Big Data technologies, ideally BigQuery and advanced SQL.

- Experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipeline development, using tools like Terraform.

- Experience with the Google Cloud Platform, or equivalent public cloud experience.

- Strong command of modern branching strategies, DevSecOps workflows, and core engineering principles.

- Experience using AI-assisted tooling in personal workflow.

Preferred Skills and Abilities:

- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related STEM field.

- Depth in leveraging AI coding agents and large language models to accelerate the SDLC and build AI-enabled test harnesses.

- Experience in agentic development, building autonomous agents that interact with complex data platform capabilities.

- Experience pairing with and supporting other engineers to raise the quality of the code the group ships.

- Excellent communication skills, with both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- Angular
- React
- Big Data technologies
- BigQuery
- SQL
- Terraform
- Google Cloud Platform
- DevSecOps
- AI-assisted tooling

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in computer science
- AI coding agents
- large language models
- agentic development
- autonomous agents

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