Manufacturing Data Engineer (Battery)
Ford Motor1 month ago
Dearborn, MI, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$133k - $251k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the AI roadmap for battery manufacturing, including decisions about what to pilot, scale, or retire.
- Benchmark AI capabilities across Ford battery sites and external cell makers, suppliers, semiconductor companies, and coatings organizations.
- Build proofs of concept and reference architectures for formation and aging optimization, inline coating and defect vision, yield genealogy, and predictive maintenance.
- Define reusable data, labeling, and model standards across plants.
- Evaluate vendors, guide embedded engineers, and align with IT and OT teams on security and scale.
- Apply generative and agentic AI, including copilots and workflow agents, where appropriate for engineering and plant workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical or Mechanical, or Bachelor's degree in Science in Computer Science.
- At least 10 years of experience, including several years applying AI or ML to real production or process systems.
- Deep experience with manufacturing or process data, including multivariate and time-series data, SPC, design of experiments, and inline vision.
- Ability to work credibly with process and controls engineers on relevant physics and lead technical direction in ML.
- Preferred: master's degree in AI, ML, data science, or computer science.
- Preferred: battery cell, semiconductor fab, or roll-to-roll coating experience; cloud ML experience with GCP or Azure; and familiarity with LangGraph, ADK, AutoGen, or MCP.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with performance-based bonuses, Ford vehicle discounts, and management leases.
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized backup child care, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility benefits.
- Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, paid community-service time, paid holidays, paid time off, and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid position requiring onsite work four or more days per week.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringML Engineering
About Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles for consumers and businesses, and provides financing through Ford Credit. A public company headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan and listed on the NYSE, it operates globally under the Ford and Lincoln brands, including electric and connected vehicles such as the F‑150 Lightning and Mustang Mach‑E. Founded in 1903, it also offers software-driven fleet, mobility, and aftersales services.