Full-time Software Lead, Manufacturing Infrastructure, Ford Motor Company

We are seeking an engineering leader to own the software platforms, cloud

services, and operational tools that support product manufacturing, deployment,

diagnostics, and lifecycle management.

This role will define and deliver the manufacturing software infrastructure

needed for product bring-up, validation, provisioning, deployment, quality

tracking, and production readiness. Working across New Product Introduction

(NPI), engineering, manufacturing, cloud infrastructure, quality, and support

teams, the leader will ensure these systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and

ready for production.

Success in this role is measured by manufacturing readiness, data visibility,

traceability, cloud platform reliability, diagnostic capability, and operational

efficiency. The role focuses on ownership of the software platform and

infrastructure ecosystem.

The ideal candidate brings experience in cloud platforms, software

infrastructure, manufacturing systems, operational tooling, and data-driven

engineering. They can lead complex initiatives across organizational boundaries

and turn manufacturing data into insights that improve quality, efficiency, and

product readiness.

02RESPONSIBILITIES

• What you'll 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.

03Improve 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.

04Lead 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.

05Build 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.

06Enable 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.

07Provide 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.

08QUALIFICATIONS

• You'll have...
• Bachelor's 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 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.
• This position is a leadership level 5 and ranges from $167,200-$316,600.
• 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.
• For more information on salary and benefits, click here:
• https://fordcareers.co/LL5
• Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
• 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. 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.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per

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