Software Engineer

Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs both on-prem and cloud native. They are involved in the entire software development lifecycle including designing software architecture, writing code, testing for quality and deploying the software to meet customer requirements. Full-stack software engineering roles, who can develop all components of software including user interface and server side also fall within this job function.

The Software Engineer will work on a Balanced Product Team and collaborate with the Product Manager, Product Designer, and other Software Engineers to deliver analytic solutions. The Software Engineer will be responsible for the development and ongoing support/maintenance of the analytic solutions.

• Product And Requirements Management: Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases. Participate in stand-up operations meetings.
• Author: Process and Design Documents
• Design/Develop/Test/Deploy: Work with the Business Customer, Product Owner, Architects, Product Designer, Software Engineers, and Security Controls Champion on solution design, development, and deployment.
• Operations: Generate Metrics, Perform User Access Authorization, Perform Password Maintenance, and Build Deployment Pipelines.
• Incident, Problem, And Change/Service Requests: Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change and service request-related activities. Includes root cause analysis (RCA). Includes proactive problem management/defect prevention activities.

The minimum requirements we seek:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable and robust software solutions that integrate and leverage state-of-the-art Generative AI models (e.g., LLMs, Diffusion Models) into production systems and applications.
• Build and optimize the infrastructure, pipelines, and tools necessary for efficient training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and serving of Generative AI models, ensuring high performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• 1+ year of experience with developing for and deploying to cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure)
• Implement and optimize cloud services and tools (e.g. Terraform, BigQuery, GCP)
• 2+ years of REST API or related development.
• 2+ years of experience in development using combination of the following technologies:
• Languages: Java / JS / TS / Python
• Frontend frameworks: Angular / React
• Backend frameworks: Spring Boot / Node
• Proven experience understanding, practicing, and advocating for software engineering disciplines from Clean Code, Software Artmanship, and Lean including:
• Paired / Mobbing programming
• Test-first/Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Evolutionary design
• Minimum Viable Product
• Willingness to collaborate daily with team members.
• A strong curiosity around how to best use technology to amaze and delight our customers
• Using CI/CD tools and pipelines e.g. Tekton, Jenkins, GIT Action, Cloud Build, etc.

Our preferred qualifications:

• Full-stack experience.
• Highly effective in working with other technical experts, Product Managers, UI/UX Designers and business stakeholders
• Delivered products that include web front-end development; JavaScript, CSS, frameworks like Angular, etc.
• Comfortable with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and pipelines e.g. Tekton, Jenkins, Cloud Build, etc.
• Experience with machine learning, mathematical modeling, and data analysis is a plus
• Experience with CA Agile Central (Rally, JIRA), backlogs, iterations, user stories, or similar Agile Tools
• Experience in the development of microservices
• Understanding of fundamental data modeling
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

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