Software Lead, Manufacturing Infrastructure

What youll do...

• Own Manufacturing Software Infrastructure
• Define and execute the long-term strategy for software infrastructure supporting manufacturing and operations.
• Build and maintain platforms for manufacturing execution provisioning diagnostics validation and release readiness.
• Establish end-to-end traceability across software hardware test results and manufacturing outcomes.
• Develop scalable architectures that support current and future manufacturing needs.

Improve Manufacturing Data Visibility and Traceability

• Partner with NPI and manufacturing teams to standardize the collection storage processing and presentation of manufacturing data.
• Build systems that bring together logs test results diagnostics yield metrics and quality data across manufacturing sites and suppliers.
• Deliver dashboards and reporting tools that provide actionable visibility into manufacturing health and product readiness.
• Ensure manufacturing data remains traceable throughout the product lifecycle.

Lead Cloud Solutions for Manufacturing Operations

• Partner with Ford cloud platform teams to deliver cloud-native solutions for manufacturing and operational workflows.
• Develop services for monitoring diagnostics provisioning analytics and software distribution.
• Promote cloud architectures that improve reliability scalability and operational efficiency.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise security availability and performance requirements.

Build Operational Support Platforms

• Lead development of cloud-based tools that help Ford support teams support products efficiently.
• Create diagnostic capabilities monitoring solutions workflows and automation that reduce support effort and speed issue resolution.
• Improve visibility into manufacturing deployment and field issues through centralized operational tooling.

Enable Manufacturing Readiness

• Develop frameworks for manufacturing deployment and production-validation readiness.
• Automate product bring-up qualification factory acceptance provisioning and release validation.
• Establish operational health metrics monitoring and alerting across manufacturing systems.
• Drive continuous improvement in manufacturing efficiency quality and operational performance.

Provide Cross-Functional Technical Leadership

• Collaborate with NPI engineering manufacturing quality supplier security cloud and operations teams.
• Define software contracts workflows and interfaces between manufacturing systems and engineering platforms.
• Lead technical decision-making across stakeholders and drive issue resolution across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 8 years of experience in software engineering infrastructure engineering or platform development.
• 3 years leading engineering teams or significant technical initiatives.
• Experience developing cloud-based platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience building operational tooling automation monitoring and data-processing systems.
• Experience with CI/CD DevOps release management and software-delivery pipelines.

Even better you may have...

• Experience with manufacturing software factory operations NPI processes or production environments.
• Experience building data pipelines telemetry platforms or analytics solutions.
• Experience with GCP and Azure cloud-native services containers and infrastructure automation.
• Experience supporting connected devices embedded systems automotive products or hardware-integrated software.
• Experience collecting and analyzing manufacturing logs diagnostics validation data and test-execution data.
• Familiarity with secure provisioning certificate management secure boot and production security.
• Experience working directly with external suppliers and manufacturing partners.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor 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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 5 and ranges from $167200-$316600.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is available for this position.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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