# IVI AI Platform Product Development Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Salary grade 7-8
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford is building a conversational, voice-forward AI assistant that helps customers interact naturally with their vehicle. The In-Vehicle Intelligence team owns the embedded experience that runs on the vehicle and connects to a cloud AI backend, spanning voice invocation, in-cabin audio processing, natural conversation, and direct control of vehicle features.

The role of IVI AI Platform Product Development Engineer is to own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle of assistant features on the vehicle. This involves partnering with product, design, systems, and platform teams to define what is built and why, then driving feasibility, architecture, integration, and release sign-off to deliver production quality features across multiple vehicle programs.

Responsibilities:

- Own and drive the technical execution of in-vehicle assistant features from early design through production release.

- Maintain a deep architectural and functional understanding of owned features, including end-to-end system behavior, interface interactions, and behavior per vehicle configuration across embedded systems and cloud extensions.

- Translate product requirements, system specifications, and UX flows into engineering-ready technical stories and acceptance criteria for development teams.

- Lead architecture and design reviews, confirming specification completeness before implementation begins, and identify and mitigate integration risks early.

- Drive cross-team technical alignment, interface contracts, versioning, and testability across subsystems and partner interfaces.

- Partner closely with audio and acoustics teams on the in-cabin voice pipeline.

- Serve as the technical liaison to external technology partners, owning API integration, validation, interface documentation, and joint debugging.

- Lead defect root cause analysis and triage across vehicle logs, debug traces, analytics, and integration test failures.

- Validate features in simulation, on integration benches, and in-vehicle, and own technical sign-off for software releases.

- Lead engineering input to Program Increment planning.

- Deliver over-the-air feature enhancements and performance improvements based on platform diagnostics and customer data.

- Contribute to production-level code and system architecture discussions.

Qualifications:

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

- Several years of experience in embedded, automotive, or systems software engineering, with hands-on production code experience.

- Well-versed in modern programming languages used for embedded and application software.

- Demonstrated ownership of features through the full lifecycle.

- Experience defining and reviewing technical designs, interface contracts, and system-level requirements.

- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to drive alignment across product, design, systems, and engineering teams.

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

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Kotlin
- Java
- embedded systems
- automotive software engineering
- cloud services
- AI and machine learning

### Nice to have
- Android Automotive OS
- real-time audio processing
- speech or voice assistant systems
- Agile and SAFe delivery
- requirements traceability and lifecycle tools

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