Senior Software Engineer (Palo Alto, CA)

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.

Imagine what you could do here at Ford! Great ideas evolve into extraordinary products and customer experiences. When you bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you will accomplish. The Digital Manufacturing Systems team is seeking a highly motivated senior enginer to help imagine and invent technology used to perfect the next generation of Ford manufacturing. Our environment fosters product innovation, rapid iteration, and a liberating amount of autonomy. Our development stack is varied with a wide variety of machine learning technologies along with low-level and server-side programming. Our team believes in fun, camaraderie, learning, and collaboration at work, and are looking for someone that shares those values. We hold each other and our apps to the highest standards, and maintain that through constructive code reviews, brainstorming sessions, and pair programming when appropriate. We also value personal relationships and take the time to get to know each other and our partners. Sound good? We'd love to hear from you.

What you'll do

• Creative thinking about highly complex challenges at scale
• Anticipating the needs of our end customers often before they do
• Create tools, dashboards and large scale data stores.
• Perform code reviews and redesign existing 
• Develop unit test plans and integration plans and help debug production issues
• Utilize Git, Git Flow, and bug tracking systems in day to day development processes
• Provide constructive feedback for testability and suitable solutions relying on data to support 
  
  
   

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (BSC)
• Swift development experience
• Python development experience
• C, C++, or Java development experience 
• Experience with data persistence and manipulation (snowflake, splunk, etc.)
• Experience or strong interest in Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning (college coursework, certificates, experience)
• 5 plus years experience with Swift/Objective-C
• 5 plus years experience with C or C++
• 5 plus years experience with Python or Ruby or Erlang
• 5 plus years experience implementing Actor Model based software solutions
• 8 plus years experience in software engineering or Masters Degree/Ph.D. in CS
• 8 plus years experience in Machine Learning or Masters Degree/Ph.D. in AI/ML

Preferred Qualifications

• High attention to detail
• Strongly empathetic with the ability to partner with broad variety of internal partner teams and internal clients
   

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, and prescription drug coverage 

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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. 

  

This position is a salary grade 7.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRHTHDPaloAlto

This position is a range of salary grades GSR6-8 . 

  

Visa sponsorship is available for this position. 

Relocation assistance 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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