# AI Engineer, Industrial Systems Data Platform (ISDP)

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,600-$192,900
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we're transforming the future of mobility. Our Enterprise Technology team plays a critical role in shaping this future. We're seeking an AI Engineer to join our Industrial Systems Data Platform (ISDP) team.

The ISDP unifies data from Product Development, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain applications into a single logical data model. We're building an AI-queryable knowledge graph over that data and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets agents reason over it.

As an AI Engineer, you'll own this system end-to-end: designing, developing, testing, and deploying the graph layer to Production on a Google Cloud Platform–native stack. You'll turn raw industrial event data into a governed, traversable graph that powers Ford's next-generation engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply-chain agents.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, develop, test, and deploy the ISDP knowledge graph from the domain event store to Production using cloud-native data pipelines.

- Model and evolve the graph's entities and relationships as new data sources are onboarded.

- Design, build, and operate the MCP server that exposes the ISDP graph layer and event store as tools to consumers.

- Define tool contracts, context, and guardrails so agents produce grounded, accurate, non-hallucinated responses over the graph.

- Ensure low-latency, secure, and cost-efficient serving for interactive and batch agent workloads.

- Own monitoring and observability of the graph layer and the MCP server.

- Partner with Data Engineers and Application Data Source Owners across Product Development, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to ingest and validate their data into ISDP.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering or equivalent combination of education & experience.

- 5+ years of experience with strong software engineering in Java, Python, with production-grade testing, CI/CD, and code quality practices.

- 3+ years of experience with hands-on experience deploying data/AI systems to Production on a GCP-native stack.

- 3+ years of experience with graph data modeling and querying.

- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Vertex AI and evaluation of agent answer quality.

- 2+ years of experience building LLM/agent systems.

- Observability expertise: Cloud Monitoring/Logging, OpenTelemetry, SLOs, dashboards, and alerting for data pipelines and services.

- 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and secure-by-default engineering.

**Benefits:**

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

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare, 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.

**Salary:** $99,600-$192,900

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- GCP
- Vertex AI
- BigQuery
- Dataflow
- Pub/Sub
- Cloud Run
- GKE
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Build
- Artifact Registry
- graph data modeling
- GQL
- property graphs
- Neo4j
- Spanner Graph
- LLM/agent systems
- MCP
- Observability
- Cloud Monitoring
- Logging
- OpenTelemetry
- SLOs
- dashboards
- alerting
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform

### Nice to have
- Dataplex
- Data Catalog
- Streaming/CDC
- event-driven architectures
- append-only/event-sourced data modeling
- PLM/product development
- manufacturing execution
- quality
- supply-chain systems

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