Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

In this position, our section builds and maintains the software that powertrain calibration and emissions engineers rely on every day. Our portfolio is broad and spans the full stack:

• Desktop applications — data upload/management tools, calibration utilities, and instrument-connected apps (C#/.NET, WinForms/DevExpress).
• Engineering analysis tools — MATLAB toolboxes and Python analytics for measurement data, emissions eKPIs, and calibration-parameter analysis.
• Web applications — calibration-tracking and dashboard apps (Java/Spring Boot backends, JavaScript/TypeScript frontends) deployed to the cloud (GCP/Cloud Run) via modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Data & integration services — REST/web services, upload and import pipelines, MongoDB/BigQuery data access, and MCP servers that expose our tooling and data to modern AI-assisted workflows.
• Cloud & DevOps — Terraform-based infrastructure, containerized deployments, pipeline migrations, and TLS/cert and security-compliance work.

We support a large user base of calibration engineers, and our tools directly enable vehicle testing, emissions compliance, and calibration delivery.

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to serve as a hands-on technical lead across this portfolio. You will not own a single project — you will move fluidly across many, providing senior engineering leverage wherever it is needed most. Concretely, you will:

• Tackle the hard problems. Jump onto the most difficult or highest-risk projects and help drive them to completion — architecture, tricky bugs, performance issues, and thorny integrations.
• Review pull requests. Provide thoughtful, timely code review across multiple languages and repos, raising the quality and consistency of the team's output.
• Work directly with users. Engage with calibration engineers on new feature requests, translate their needs into clear requirements, and shape practical solutions.
• Debug and root-cause. Investigate production issues across desktop, web, and data-pipeline systems, then fix them or guide the owning engineer to a fix.
• Mentor and unblock. Share knowledge, set technical direction, and help other engineers (onshore and offshore) grow and stay unblocked.
• Improve how we build. Contribute to shared infrastructure, CI/CD, package distribution, testing practices, and security/compliance hardening.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 8+ Years extensive professional software engineering experience, including a track record of leading technically challenging projects to completion.
• Strong general-purpose programming skills and the ability to learn new languages, frameworks, and codebases quickly.
• Proven debugging and root-cause-analysis skills across unfamiliar code.
• Experience reviewing others' code and mentoring engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to work directly with non-software domain experts (calibration/test engineers) and translate their needs into requirements.
• Comfort working independently and collaboratively in a distributed, remote team.

Requirements

• Strongly preferred (experience in several of these):
• Python — analysis tooling, data processing, packaging/distribution.
• MATLAB — engineering toolboxes, GUIs, Compiler/MCR deployment.
• C#/.NET — Windows desktop applications (WinForms/WPF, DevExpress).
• Web development — JavaScript/TypeScript frontends and Java/Spring Boot (or similar) backends.
• Cloud & DevOps — GCP (Cloud Run, BigQuery), Terraform, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Databases — SQL and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB).
• AI/LLM tooling — MCP servers or integrating AI assistants into developer and engineering workflows.
• Nice to have:
• Automotive powertrain, calibration, or emissions domain knowledge. This is a strong plus but not required — a motivated engineer will be trained on the domain.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.