Software and AI Engineer
Ford Motor20 hours ago
Remote, United States or Dearborn, MI, USASenior
Base Salary
$68k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and resolve production issues across COBOL, DB2, CICS, Java/Spring services, and GCP Cloud Run microservices.
- Design and operate least-privilege, per-call-audited MCP servers integrating with DB2, Splunk, and GCP while handling provenance and PII.
- Build production multi-agent workflows with Google ADK, including SequentialAgent and LoopAgent compositions, escalation containment, and originations-debugging workflows.
- Own the loan-originations ontology, knowledge graph, hybrid vector and graph retrieval, and auditable RAG responses.
- Build deterministic Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot backend services for audit envelopes, provenance storage, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Create ADRs, business-logic documents, skill files, Splunk saved-search catalogs, and other documentation required for completed changes.
- Create evaluation systems and runners for AI tools and agents, including automated test generation, evaluation, grading, coverage, and quality measurement.
- Track and publish monthly improvements in agent autonomy and the types of changes made cheaper.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 7 years building and operating production-grade backend systems as a hands-on engineer.
- At least 5 years of experience with Python and Java; Kotlin and TypeScript are a plus.
- At least 1 year shipping AI-enabled applications in production, including agent frameworks, retrieval systems, or LLM-backed services.
- Experience with Google ADK, LangGraph, LangChain, or a comparable agent orchestration framework.
- Practical experience implementing MCP tool integrations, agent communication patterns, and AI observability.
- Experience with vector search, hybrid retrieval, knowledge graphs, or GraphRAG.
- Strong backend fundamentals including Spring Boot, relational database query and schema design, REST/OpenAPI, TDD, and modern CI/CD.
- Production experience with Google Cloud Platform, including Vertex AI, Cloud Run, and BigQuery, or an equivalent cloud.
- Experience operating in complex, multi-tier, legacy-integrated environments where change control and auditability matter.
- Preferred experience with semantic technologies, ontology engineering, Neo4j, Neptune, mainframe systems, Splunk SPL, event-driven architectures, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Docker, or Kubernetes.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, subsidized backup child care, and family-building benefits.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, paid community-service time, paid holidays, and paid time off with the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Remote position, indicated by the #LI-Remote listing tag.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaCOBOLDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformIBM DB2JavaKotlinKubernetesNeo4jPostgreSQLPythonSplunkSpring BootTypeScript
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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.