AI Platform Engineer
Ford Motor1 day ago
Allen Park, MI, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$100k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain frontend applications, backend services, APIs, integrations, and enterprise platform interfaces.
- Implement integrations with model-serving and AI services, including retrieval, data grounding, workflow orchestration, evaluation, access controls, monitoring, and failure handling.
- Design, provision, and maintain Google Cloud Platform environments and services using Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, IAM, secure configuration, and infrastructure-promotion workflows.
- Develop data-ingestion, transformation, and service-integration components for structured and unstructured data sources.
- Build and maintain CI/CD workflows, automated testing, code-quality checks, and security checks.
- Monitor service health, troubleshoot production issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and improve performance, availability, deployment safety, and operational support.
- Translate product and platform needs into technical designs, API specifications, implementation plans, and clear technical decisions.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Security, Operations, and engineering partners in an Agile delivery environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology, or a technology-related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least 4 years of professional software-engineering experience.
- At least 3 years of experience with a modern frontend framework such as Angular, React, or Vue.
- At least 3 years of experience with a backend framework such as FastAPI, Flask, Django, or Spring Boot.
- At least 2 years of experience with Python and/or Java.
- At least 3 years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience across compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
- At least 2 years of experience authoring and maintaining Terraform modules, including remote state management and CI/CD-driven plan-and-apply workflows.
- Experience with full-stack development, frontend applications, backend services, APIs, integrations, CI/CD, automated testing, code-quality checks, security practices, monitoring, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with product, design, data, security, and operations partners.
- Preferred qualifications include LLM or open-source model integration, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, data grounding, agentic workflows, or LLM orchestration frameworks.
- Preferred qualifications include GCP certification, Cloud Build or Tekton experience, AWS or Azure experience, software quality practices, Agile teamwork, and a master’s degree in a related field.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, plus management leases.
- Tuition assistance.
- Employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- The position is salary grade 7 and is tagged as hybrid.
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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.