# RAE Software Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,000-$192,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead development of core software infrastructure for next-generation Augmented Reality (AR) Head-Up Display (HUD) systems.

This role focuses on low-level systems engineering, platform architecture, hardware and software integration, vehicle data ingestion, and real-time AR rendering pipelines. The engineer will work across the stack from vehicle interfaces and sensor inputs to rendering integration and system validation to help transition advanced prototypes toward production-intent systems.

## Responsibilities

- Design and develop low-level, high-performance C++ software supporting AR HUD pipelines, building and maintaining modular platform infrastructure enabling.

- Rendering pipelines, sensor/camera ingestion, and vehicle signal integration while debugging and optimizing memory for threading, and real-time performance constraints.

- Integrate platform software with real-time AR rendering stacks (e.g., Qt / OpenGL / Vulkan), supporting multi-view / autostereoscopic rendering pipelines while ensuring synchronization between rendering outputs and sensor inputs (eye tracking, cameras).

- Interface with vehicle data pipelines (CAN / Ethernet) to ingest ADAS signals, navigation / localization data, vehicle state information with LiDAR.

- Translate vehicle signals into real-time AR visualization inputs and support integration and debugging in vehicle and bench environments.

- Collaborate with lab and prototype teams to stabilize demo and test systems.

- Define and execute validation strategies for latency and timing behavior, sensor-to-render synchronization.

- Maintain stability under real-world conditions (thermal, vibration, sunlight) and identify and resolve system-level bottlenecks.

- Act as a technical owner across software + hardware boundaries working closely with Optics experts, the ADAS team, & Suppliers (e.g., display or camera vendors) to drive technical decisions, tradeoffs, and mitigate risk mitigation.

- Leverage AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based code assistants) to accelerate C++ development, refactoring, and unit test generation for performance-critical systems.

- Leverage 3D rendering engine coding experience (e.g., Unity, Unreal Engine, or custom rendering engines) to inform shader development, scene composition, and real-time rendering optimizations within the Qt/OpenGL/Vulkan AR HUD pipeline.

## Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 7+ years of experience in software engineering or equivalent demonstrable impact.

- 7+ years of experience Strong expertise in C++ development for performance-critical systems.

- 7+ years of experience with system-level programming (multi-threading, memory, IPC, etc.).

- 7+ years of experience integrating software with hardware systems or devices.

- 7+ years of experience with end-to-end ownership of a complex software subsystem, including architectural definition and implementation.

- 7+ years of experience integrating software with hardware, sensors, cameras, vehicle systems, or embedded platforms.

- 7+ years of experience in work on latency-sensitive or real-time applications with an understanding of performance tradeoffs and constraints.

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- System-level programming
- Multi-threading
- Memory management
- IPC
- Software integration with hardware systems
- Real-time applications
- Performance-critical systems

### Nice to have
- Graphics or rendering systems (Qt, OpenGL, Vulkan)
- AR/VR, HUDs, or display systems
- Vehicle networks (CAN, Ethernet)
- ADAS data pipelines or perception systems
- Prototype-to-production technology development environments
- Linux or UNIX system experience
- Real-time rendering pipelines, shader development, and GPU performance optimization

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