At Ford Motor Company, we believe 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 have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

In Ford EVDD we create lifetime value for our customers by delivering a software development environment that is purposeful and differentiated with simplicity and ingenuity to generate sustainable returns for Ford. We equip the enterprise to derive value from all forms of data to generate sustainable savings through automation and team integration.

Ford EVDD is looking for a dynamic, collaborative, and creative professional to manage the assembly and delivery of its software. In this role, you’ll act as a coordinator between software development teams, vehicle manufacturing teams, and release engineering teams to ensure efficiency of delivery and quality of software developed at Ford. You will also play a critical role designing and implementing creative solutions for automating processes and synthesizing new workflows to further improve efficiency and quality. The ideal candidate is a dynamic cross-discipline communicator, well-organized, and takes satisfaction in developing new processes and automated solutions.

What you’ll be able to do:

• Design, implement, and maintain automation solutions that enable our product teams to build and deploy code efficiently and consistently

• Synthesize workflows and support existing workflows that facilitate efficient delivery of new software.

• Ensure that Ford systems have reliability and availability that meet customer needs

• Teach, coach, and encourage adoption of best-practices and best-in-class software build tooling solutions

• Leverage and recommend cloud technologies enabling scalable provisioning and required reliability

• Mentor other engineers in similar roles, driving a culture of learning and autonomy

You'll Have…

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, applicable degree, or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years’ experience of full software lifecycle software development, automation, and tools experience in a variety of contexts using C/Java/ or equivalent and interpreted/scripting language experience (like python/go)

• 5+ years’ SCM experience, preferably git

• 3+ years’ experience developing software on Linux (any current distro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux / RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES) or Unix operation systems and Windows

• 3+ years’ experience configuring or creating CI pipelines such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions

Even better, you may have…

• Strong experience with deploying automation to ensure code quality and reliability meets defined metrics.

• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience in eXtreme Programming (XP) disciplines including: Paired programming, Test-first/test-driven development (TDD).

• Expert with scripting languages

• Experience with cloud infrastructure technologies such as: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, GKE or GCP

• Proficiency with GNU Make

• Proficiency with one or more of the following build languages: Maven, Gradle, Bazel, Ant, Jam, Buck, CMake, Ninja, Autotools

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:

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Compensation will be determined according to experience and location. This position is a salary grade 7 - 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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Requisition ID : 38308