Senior Fullstack Software Engineer - MLOps

At Ford Motor Company, we believe that the freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we offer a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you work together with us to define tomorrow’s transportation.

Creating the future of smart mobility requires the highly intelligent use of data, metrics, and analytics. That’s where you can make an impact as part of our Global Data Insight & Analytics team. We are the trusted advisers who enable Ford to clearly see business conditions, customer needs, and the competitive landscape. With our support, key decision-makers can act in meaningful, positive ways. Join us and use your data expertise and analytical skills to drive evidence-based, timely decision-making.

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Public and Ford Pro Charging Analytics under the Global Data Insights & Analytics (GDIA) organization's Strategy & Enterprise Analytics (SEA) team, specifically within the Charging & Energy Services Analytics Product Line. This team develops innovative, cloud-native data, AI, and analytics solutions for Ford. We provide data, AI/ML, and advanced analytics solutions to internal partners and co-develop external applications to help improve our EV customer’s public charging experience and provide strategic and engineering support to Ford Pro customers. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Public and Ford Pro Charging Analytics, you'll be a key player in driving this success.

What you’ll do…

• Perform full-stack development on both user-facing client web applications and server-side applications.
• Leverage modern frameworks, open-source tools, and cloud technologies to develop software effectively while practicing software craftsmanship principles, such as test-driven development, behavior-driven development, and continuous integration/continuous delivery.
• Deliver business value through working, tested code across the full stack of technologies.
• Own delivered value throughout the entire lifecycle, including development, support, and maintenance. Identify minimum viable products and decompose features by thinly slicing stories, focusing on low cycle time and high throughput delivery.
• Mentor and coach junior software engineers on the principles of software engineering and craftsmanship. Maintain high standards of quality in delivered software.
• Work in an agile software development environment using sprint/user story methodology.
• Collaborate with team members to establish best practices to maximize efficiency and minimize risk.
• Identify opportunities for adopting new technologies to address existing needs and anticipate future challenges.
• Refactor APIs/services for simplification and efficiency.
• Develop software that is Clean Code compliant and utilizes tools such as SonarQube.
• Use DevOps tools such as GitHub, SonarQube, Checkmarx, and FOSSA to deploy, improve, and manage software.
• Stay current on the latest technology and contribute to the technical direction of the company while maintaining a customer-centric approach.

You’ll have…                   

• A bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field,
• 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in MLOps or deploying machine learning models in production.
  • Proficiency in TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn, with experience in MLflow, Kubeflow, or TFX.
• 3+ years of experience in full-stack development, including frontend and backend systems, with integration of ML models.
  • Experience with backend frameworks such as Node.js, Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
  • Experience with both SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases.
• 3+ years of experience in Docker containerization and Google Cloud Platform development, debugging, and deployment, or with other cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, etc.) and associated cloud components.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD development utilizing tools like GitHub, Tekton, Terraform, and CloudBuild.

Even better, you may have... 

• Proficiency in building Flask APIs and Plotly Dash applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Airflow, Cloud Composer, and Prefect, and data transformation tools like DBT.
• Expertise in API-related technologies such as JSON, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Swagger, and Postman.
• Experience with application monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Experience with fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) and/or prompt engineering, and engineering and deploying LLMs on scalable infrastructures.
• Experience with multimodal models and contributions to Generative AI research through publications or other means.
• Experience supporting critical applications in production at scale.
• 1+ year of experience leading and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Strong critical thinking, decision-making, and leadership 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!

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:

• 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. 

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:
https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD
This position is a range of salary grades 8.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position. 

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
 

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