# AI Agent Engineer (Controls)

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Redford, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$144,900 or $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Join Ford's Advanced Industrial Technology and Platforms (ATP) organization as an AI Agent Engineer (Controls) in Redford, MI. This hands-on engineering role combines data science and software engineering to build AI agents for Agentic Issue Resolution (AIR), helping plant teams investigate and fix production issues.

**Job Overview** As an AI Agent Engineer (Controls), you will design and build AI agents that plan investigations, gather evidence, and recommend fixes. You will work closely with supervisors and engineers at Ford's Manufacturing Technology Development Center.

**Responsibilities**

- Build and orchestrate agents that classify issues, plan investigations, and draft recommendations

- Connect agents to production, quality, and maintenance data, and to CoreMesh, ATP's manufacturing ontology and knowledge graph

- Measure and improve agent performance, analyzing failures and improving accuracy, cost, and response time

- Spend time with supervisors and engineers at Kentucky Truck Plant to understand how problems are solved

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience

- At least 6-8 years' experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or software engineering

- Experience with Mfg Controls and large language models

- Strong Python and SQL skills

**Benefits**

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

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and family building benefits

- Vehicle discount program and tuition assistance

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

**Salary** This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900, or a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- large language models
- Mfg Controls
- data science
- machine learning engineering
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- Agent frameworks (e.g. LangGraph or Google ADK)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- manufacturing
- quality
- structured problem-solving experience (8D, 5-Why)
- knowledge graphs or ontologies
- Google Cloud Platform and Vertex AI

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