Systems Engineer
Ford Motor1 day ago
Dearborn, MI, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$100k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own diagnostic features from defining vehicle observations and technical requirements through integration, global deployment, and production monitoring.
- Define and enforce production quality standards for observable, maintainable diagnostic workflows.
- Tailor diagnostic system behavior and visualizations for technicians, drivers, engineers, and enterprise stakeholders.
- Translate system telemetry, technical tradeoffs, and root-cause analyses for engineering teams and non-technical leadership.
- Build AI-powered diagnostic capabilities using vehicle signals and LLM-based reasoning with retrieval-augmented generation.
- Lead system integration testing and failure-mode simulations to validate alerts and human-in-the-loop support processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience developing and deploying software solutions.
- At least 1 year of professional or co-op experience developing web applications with React, JavaScript/TypeScript, or comparable technologies, including API integration, relational databases, and production deployment.
- Experience developing and modifying Python scripts for engineering workflows, build processes, or data processing automation.
- Experience delivering an application from requirements and database design through deployment and user adoption, with familiarity with GraphQL, SQL, and Prisma or comparable database-access frameworks.
- Experience building an AI-enabled application using LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, or conversational agents.
- Experience integrating machine, equipment, or operational data into applications, dashboards, or automated workflows, including familiarity with manufacturing metrics such as OEE.
- Experience creating technical documentation, user manuals, demonstrations, or application requirements and translating stakeholder needs into usable software.
- Experience diagnosing software or hardware issues, identifying root causes, and implementing corrective actions.
- Preferred qualifications include full-lifecycle ownership of significant applications, manufacturing execution system experience, preventive maintenance or asset-management workflows, Azure or Cloudflare Workers experience, RAG troubleshooting assistants, embedded-system testing tools, production dashboards, and React Native/Expo or Supabase mobile development.
- A track record of software improvements that reduce costs, shorten workflows, improve customer support, or replace manual processes and third-party tools.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent programs, subsidized backup child care, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility benefits.
- Vehicle discount programs for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and paid community-service time off.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, paid time off, and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work four or more days per week.
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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.