Senior AI Engineer
Ford Motor1 day ago
Dearborn, MI, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build production-grade LLM applications, RAG solutions, and tool-using AI agents for forecasting, planning, and scheduling.
- Develop retrieval pipelines involving ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, grounding, and citations.
- Build maintainable Python services, APIs, and reusable AI components and deploy and operate them in production.
- Create evaluation datasets, automated tests, monitoring, and observability for quality, safety, latency, cost, drift, and failures.
- Apply responsible AI, governance, security, and human-in-the-loop controls throughout the development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with Product, Software Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, planners, schedulers, and other end users.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and establish reusable production patterns based on measurable business value, quality, and cost.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, or applied AI, including hands-on Python, SQL, and LLM or agent application development or deployment.
- Experience building maintainable production services and APIs, with automated testing, Git workflows, code reviews, CI/CD, and containerization.
- Experience defining measurable quality criteria and evaluating AI/ML systems through quantitative metrics and structured human review.
- Ability to collaborate with software engineering teams and business users to move solutions from concept to production.
- Demonstrated experience engaging directly with end users to shape and validate AI solutions.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into technical solutions and communicate results to non-technical partners.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree or PhD, expertise in LLM application architectures and retrieval pipelines, production LLM or agent deployment, AI observability, adversarial security testing, GCP, vector databases, model hosting, and automotive or supply-chain domain knowledge.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, subsidized backup childcare, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility benefits.
- Vehicle discount programs for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, paid community-service time, paid holidays, 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.