Senior Software Engineer - AI & Search

Overview

At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.

• Job Type: Full time
• Work Type: Remote

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You’ll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

In this position….

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing scalable microservices architecture that will support the company’s business requirements. If you are a highly motivated and experienced Software Engineer with a passion for building scalable and robust microservices platforms using open-source technologies, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

What you’ll do….

• Be part of a team of software developers, providing technical guidance and support throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Architects, DevOps, and QA, to design and develop a scalable microservices platform.
• Design, develop, and implement high-quality, reusable, and testable code that adheres to industry best practices and standards.
• Build reusable frameworks and work closely with DevOps and other teams to ensure the platform is highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant.
• Handle operational issues with little or no oversight.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to standards, patterns, and architecture principles.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and user guides for the platform

You’ll have….

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of Object-Oriented Development experience, with deep expertise in building microservices architectures on the JVM platform utilizing the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring JDBC).
• 2+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipelines using Tekton or Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• 2+ years of understanding, practicing, and advocating for clean code principles such as test-driven development (TDD/BDD), Extreme Programming (XP), self-documenting code, continuous refactoring, and writing Unit, Integration, and Acceptance test cases

Even better, you may have….

• 1+ years of experience with search engine technologies like Apache Solr or Elastic Search
• 1+ years of experience working with database technologies like PostgreSQL, Mongo DB or similar
• 1+ years of experience working with cloud technologies in GCP or AWS (pub/sub, cloud run, cloud monitoring)
• 1+ years of experience utilizing Python to develop robust data pipelines that ingest, integrate, and process data.
• Working knowledge with application of LLM in generative, agentic use cases and familiarity with frameworks like ADK, Gemini models and Arize AI agent monitoring tools.
• Experience implementing large scale eCommerce Search and Discovery capabilities.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to drive engineering efficiency and productivity gains.

  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 …