Staff Engineer

Imagine what you could do here at Ford! Great ideas evolve into extraordinary products and customer experiences.
When you bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you will accomplish.
The Digital Manufacturing Systems team is seeking a highly motivated staff systems engineer to help imagine, invent, and implement technology used to manufacture the next generation of Ford vehicles.
Our environment fosters product innovation, rapid iteration, and a liberating amount of autonomy.
Our development stack is varied and involves a wide variety of technologies including low-level and server-side programming.
As a senior engineer you will be expected to implement never done before solutions on not yet shipped hardware.
Our team believes in fun, camaraderie, learning, and collaboration at work, and are looking for someone that shares those values.
We hold each other and our solutions to the highest standards, and maintain that through constructive code reviews, brainstorming sessions, and pair programming when appropriate.
We also value personal relationships and take the time to get to know each other and our partners.
Sound good? We'd love to hear from you.
Key Qualifications High attention to detail Strongly empathetic with the ability to partner with broad variety of internal partner teams and internal clients Extensive systems engineering experience in multiple environments and multiple systems (PLM,MES,CAD & other manufacturing data systems) Experience with geometry rendering, kernel/engine Experience or strong interest in robotics and industrial controls programming Ability to think through factory/manufacturing implications of your solutions in order to build the right things, the right way, the first time.
Ideal Qualifications 4 plus years experience PLM platform automation (DS/TC platforms) 4 plus years experience Integration of PLM/Shopfloor Systems 4 plus years experience with Python, Typescript, JavaScript, Ruby or Erlang 4 plus years experience implementing Actor Model based software solutions 6 plus years experience in software engineering or Masters Degree/Ph.
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in CS 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! What you'll receive in return: 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, and prescription drug coverage Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.
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Description You will be building software and collaborating across a broad spectrum of teams and various factory, IT, and testing teams to design and develop innovative solutions for Ford’s factory lines.
You will also enjoy responsibility for maintaining and improving existing software.
Responsibilities Will Include: - Creative thinking about highly complex challenges at scale - Anticipating the needs of our end customers often before they do - Perform code reviews and redesign existing - Develop test plans and integration plans and help debug production issues - Provide constructive feedback for testability and suitable solutions relying on data to support technical decisions - Some travel will be required (25-50%)