Staff Software Developer – IVI Test Infrastructure
Ford Motor2 months ago
Base Salary
$147k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and maintain scalable test infrastructure for embedded Linux, sensor, camera, and OTA subsystems.
- Build automation, validation, continuous integration, test orchestration, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
- Improve test coverage, execution speed, reliability, observability, dashboards, reporting, and failure alerting.
- Develop and extend pytest, Python, embedded and hardware test harnesses, and service-level test frameworks.
- Scale distributed and parallel test execution across embedded targets and virtual environments.
- Partner with development, QA, and integration teams and provide technical mentorship.
- Support testing of sensor fusion, camera pipelines, OTA rollout and rollback, mobile services, and backend services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- 7+ years of experience in software development, test automation, or infrastructure engineering, including meaningful experience with embedded or platform systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and pytest, with the ability to architect scalable test systems for multiple teams.
- Deep knowledge of embedded Linux, shell scripting, and system-level or kernel debugging.
- Hands-on experience testing or integrating radar, lidar, ultrasonic sensor sets, and camera subsystems.
- Experience validating OTA update delivery, rollback, and failure recovery mechanisms.
- Strong background in CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and test orchestration.
- Experience with Docker and orchestration tools; exposure to GCP, AWS, or Azure is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include automotive, embedded, or IoT experience; vehicle testing frameworks; CAN/LIN; HIL/SIL; Appium or similar mobile/Android automation; and Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional work with developers, QA, and integration engineers.
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 and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility treatments.
- Employee and family vehicle discounts and management lease programs.
- Tuition assistance and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service, paid holidays, and additional vacation purchase options.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite attendance four or more days per week.
Tech Stack
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.