Senior Staff Software Engineer OTA
Ford Motor14 hours ago
Base Salary
$167k - $317k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the OTA software update engine.
- Design and implement reliable, safe update orchestration logic.
- Write production-quality asynchronous Rust focused on correctness, safety, and maintainability.
- Build and contribute to developer tooling for creating and managing software update deployments.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, container infrastructure, and multi-target build systems.
- Participate in code reviews focused on correctness and reliability.
- Collaborate with embedded firmware, vehicle software, and cloud infrastructure teams to coordinate end-to-end update flows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- 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 command of asynchronous programming, including the Tokio runtime and concurrent system design.
- Solid Linux systems experience, including developing, debugging, and operating software in Linux environments.
- 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 and documentation skills.
- Preferred experience includes automotive systems, OTA updates, UDS, CAN, LIN, Yocto/BitBake, embedded cross-compilation, serialization and schema evolution, developer-tool packaging, 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 programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
- Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility treatments.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and paid community-service time.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, plus paid time off and optional additional vacation purchase.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite attendance four or more days per week.
- Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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.