Staff Engineer
Ford Motor21 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical vision and execution for rebuilding Ford’s connected vehicle streaming foundation with a high-throughput, low-latency architecture.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Staff and Senior Staff Engineers across an 80+ person engineering organization.
- Drive technical alignment through RFCs, architecture reviews, and Golden Path implementations.
- Define database and time-series data modeling standards for high-cardinality vehicle telemetry.
- Design and develop agentic AI workflows that answer natural-language data questions and generate real-time insights.
- Use applied AI and machine learning for data pruning, anomaly detection, compute allocation, intelligent ingestion, metadata tagging, and self-healing pipelines.
- Lead cloud architecture and cost optimization strategies that improve reliability, performance, and total cost of ownership.
- Prototype difficult architectural components and solve complex technical bottlenecks hands-on.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field is required; a Master’s or PhD in a highly technical field is preferred.
- At least 10 years of professional software and data engineering experience is required.
- Proven experience architecting large-scale, petabyte-scale streaming and distributed systems.
- Experience as a Staff or Senior Staff Engineer, or equivalent, providing technical leadership for organizations of 50–100+ engineers.
- Expertise in relational, NoSQL, and time-series database modeling, including high-frequency sensor data, windowing, and compaction.
- Deep hands-on applied AI experience, including agentic workflows and LLM-based data exploration and insight generation.
- Expert proficiency with Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery, Dataflow, and Vertex AI.
- Mastery of Kafka or Pub/Sub for high-throughput messaging.
- Experience driving architecture redesigns for efficiency, cost reduction, and performance optimization in cloud-native environments.
- Mastery of SDLC, MLOps, and LLMOps, with the ability to establish standards for testing, observability, and deployment of AI-integrated data systems.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsData 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.