Generative AI Engineer - Ford Pro Intelligence
Ford MotorBase Salary
$119k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Ship production GenAI features that improve commercial customer workflows.
- Design and improve LLM systems for intent interpretation, context retrieval, tool and function calling, API integration, and multi-step workflow orchestration.
- Build applications that transform operational signals into summaries, recommendations, alerts, and decision-support experiences.
- Develop evaluation datasets, test harnesses, prompt and workflow regression testing, groundedness checks, guardrails, safety controls, and misuse defenses.
- Implement latency, cost, quality, and observability monitoring plus traceability for debugging AI behavior.
- Help move prototypes into maintainable production services and collaborate with engineering, product, data, security, and business teams.
- Contribute to responsible AI practices in an enterprise software environment.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience building production backend services, APIs, data products, or AI-enabled applications.
- At least 3 years demonstrating strong programming skills in Python, Kotlin, or Java.
- At least 2 years of practical experience using LLM APIs or building GenAI-enabled applications.
- At least 2 years of experience with prompt engineering, RAG, tool calling, function calling, or structured model outputs.
- At least 2 years of experience working with SQL and structured data.
- At least 2 years of experience deploying or operating software in a cloud environment, preferably GCP.
- At least 2 years demonstrating strong understanding of testing, monitoring, reliability, and maintainable software design.
- Preferred: at least 1 year collaborating with product managers, engineers, data teams, and business stakeholders.
- Preferred: at least 1 year deploying agentic AI-based applications in enterprise production environments.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
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.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service, paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid position; candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub may be required onsite four or more days per week.
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