Senior Staff Software Engineer OTA
Ford Motor20 hours ago
Base Salary
$167k - $317k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the in-vehicle OTA software update engine.
- Design and implement reliable, safe update orchestration across download, verification, installation, and activation lifecycles.
- Write production-quality asynchronous Rust focused on correctness, safety, and maintainability.
- Build developer tooling for creating and managing software update deployments.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, container infrastructure, and multi-target build systems.
- Collaborate with embedded firmware, vehicle software, and cloud infrastructure teams to coordinate end-to-end update flows.
- Participate in high-quality code reviews and produce useful technical documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years writing production Rust, or strong demonstrable C++ expertise with willingness to work in Rust.
- Strong async programming and concurrent systems design experience, including the Tokio runtime.
- Solid Linux systems development, debugging, and operations experience.
- Experience designing and implementing state machines for distributed or embedded systems.
- Strong unit, integration, and mock-driven testing discipline.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and modern build systems.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Preferred experience with automotive systems, OTA updates, or UDS, CAN, and LIN vehicle communication protocols.
- Preferred familiarity with Yocto/BitBake, embedded Linux image builds, cross-compilation, serialization and schema evolution, developer-tool distribution, regulated industries, and AI-assisted coding workflows.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
- Family-building benefits including adoption, surrogacy, and fertility expense support.
- Employee and family vehicle discounts and management leases.
- Tuition assistance and employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for community service, paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite attendance four or more days per week.
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.