Software Engineer, AI Enablement

Overview

At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.

• Job Type: Full time
• Work Type: Hybrid

Do you believe data tells the real story? We do! Redefining mobility requires quality data, metrics and analytics, as well as insightful interpreters and analysts. That's where Global Data Insight & Analytics makes an impact. We advise leadership on business conditions, customer needs and the competitive landscape. With our support, key decision makers can act in meaningful, positive ways. Join us and use your data expertise and analytical skills to drive evidence-based, timely decision making.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build AI-powered agents that enable intelligent discovery, recommendation, and management of enterprise ontology assets.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with practical experience applying AI techniques to solve complex information discovery, recommendation, and search. This individual will evaluate alternative technical approaches, make architecture recommendations, and deliver scalable production solutions.

• Design and build AI-powered applications, agents, and intelligent workflows that improve discovery, recommendation, and management of enterprise ontology and metadata assets.

• Evaluate and recommend technical approaches for semantic search, knowledge management, retrieval, and recommendation challenges.

• Design and implement scalable backend services, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities.

• Build retrieval, ranking, and recommendation systems that support intelligent user experiences.

• Collaborate with product managers, ontology experts, and domain stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.

• Conduct technical evaluations and proof-of-concepts for emerging AI technologies.

• Drive architecture decisions, engineering best practices, and operational excellence.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 7+ years of professional experience in Data Science or Software Engineering building scalable production systems.

• 5+ years of experience working with Python/Java/Javascript/Angular programming languages.

• Experience in building autonomous agents using agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph/LangChain/Google ADK or Similar Technologies.

• Experience implementing tool integration patterns (MCP), agent communication protocols, and AI application observability.

• Experience with vector search or hybrid retrieval architectures.

• Experience working with GCP services (Vertex AI, Cloud Run, and BigQuery) or similar cloud platforms for deploying scalable AI solutions.

• Strong problem-solving and system design skills.

• Ability to evaluate competing technical approaches and articulate tradeoffs.

• Experience working with large, complex datasets and information management systems.

  Even Better, you may have:

• Experience with semantic technologies, search, recommendation systems, or knowledge graphs.

• Experience working with graph databases, Graph-RAG applications.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

This position ranges from salary grade 7-8 and ranges from $97,140-$192,900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

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Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, If you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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