# Software Lead, Manufacturing Infrastructure

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $167,200-$316,600
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We are seeking an engineering leader to own the software platforms, cloud services, and operational tools that support product manufacturing, deployment, diagnostics, and lifecycle management.

This role will define and deliver the manufacturing software infrastructure needed for product bring-up, validation, provisioning, deployment, quality tracking, and production readiness. Working across New Product Introduction (NPI), engineering, manufacturing, cloud infrastructure, quality, and support teams, the leader will ensure these systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and ready for production.

**Responsibilities**

- Own Manufacturing Software Infrastructure

- Define and execute the long-term strategy for software infrastructure supporting manufacturing and operations.

- Build and maintain platforms for manufacturing execution, provisioning, diagnostics, validation, and release readiness.

- Establish end-to-end traceability across software, hardware, test results, and manufacturing outcomes.

- Develop scalable architectures that support current and future manufacturing needs.

**Improve Manufacturing Data Visibility and Traceability**

- Partner with NPI and manufacturing teams to standardize the collection, storage, processing, and presentation of manufacturing data.

- Build systems that bring together logs, test results, diagnostics, yield metrics, and quality data across manufacturing sites and suppliers.

- Deliver dashboards and reporting tools that provide actionable visibility into manufacturing health and product readiness.

- Ensure manufacturing data remains traceable throughout the product lifecycle.

**Lead Cloud Solutions for Manufacturing Operations**

- Partner with Ford cloud platform teams to deliver cloud-native solutions for manufacturing and operational workflows.

- Develop services for monitoring, diagnostics, provisioning, analytics, and software distribution.

- Promote cloud architectures that improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

- Ensure solutions meet enterprise security, availability, and performance requirements.

**Build Operational Support Platforms**

- Lead development of cloud-based tools that help Ford support teams support products efficiently.

- Create diagnostic capabilities, monitoring solutions, workflows, and automation that reduce support effort and speed issue resolution.

- Improve visibility into manufacturing, deployment, and field issues through centralized operational tooling.

**Enable Manufacturing Readiness**

- Develop frameworks for manufacturing, deployment, and production-validation readiness.

- Automate product bring-up, qualification, factory acceptance, provisioning, and release validation.

- Establish operational health metrics, monitoring, and alerting across manufacturing systems.

- Drive continuous improvement in manufacturing efficiency, quality, and operational performance.

**Provide Cross-Functional Technical Leadership**

- Collaborate with NPI, engineering, manufacturing, quality, supplier, security, cloud, and operations teams.

- Define software contracts, workflows, and interfaces between manufacturing systems and engineering platforms.

- Lead technical decision-making across stakeholders and drive issue resolution across organizational and geographic boundaries.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform development.

- 3+ years leading engineering teams or significant technical initiatives.

- Experience developing cloud-based platforms and distributed systems.

- Experience building operational tooling, automation, monitoring, and data-processing systems.

- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, release management, and software-delivery pipelines.

**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
- cloud platforms
- software infrastructure
- manufacturing systems
- operational tooling
- data-driven engineering
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- release management
- software-delivery pipelines

### Nice to have
- GCP
- Azure
- cloud-native services
- containers
- infrastructure automation
- secure provisioning
- certificate management
- secure boot
- production security

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