Currently tracking 13 active AI roles, down 11% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $85k–$233k (avg $147k).
Ford has 20 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles, 60%, are focused on agents. Engineering is the dominant function, with 17 positions, and hiring is concentrated in the United States. Frequent technology tags include agent orchestration, RAG, and LLM observability, suggesting a focus on building and deploying AI agents. In the last 30 days, Ford has added 21 new AI roles, representing a 600% increase from the previous 30-day period.
Ford currently has 33 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Engineer (2), Data Scientist (2), Analytics Integration Specialist, Applied AI/ML Software Engineer-Supply Chain AI and Decision Intelligence, Chief Engineer, AI Product Creation. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Ford's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (64%), application (15%), serving infrastructure (9%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Ford is hiring AI talent in: United States (33 roles).
Job postings at Ford most frequently reference: agent orchestration, model serving, rag, llm observability, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, Ford has posted 33 new AI-related roles. That is a +57% change versus the prior 30 days (21 → 33).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| ADAS Core Hardware Engineer This role is for an ADAS Core Hardware Engineer at Ford, responsible for the core development of ADAS sensors and systems. The engineer will lead hardware and software core development, own requirements, manage component robustness, lead sourcing processes, and conduct failure mode and functional safety analyses. The role involves significant collaboration with internal teams and external suppliers, problem-solving for hardware/software/packaging issues, and supporting prototype builds and vehicle launches. Experience with ADAS sensing technologies and automotive product development processes is required. | — | 0 |
| Area Manager Area Manager role at Ford focused on leading manufacturing operations, driving efficiency through lean principles, managing teams, and achieving business results in a high-volume, complex manufacturing environment. This is a leadership role within the plant, responsible for operational excellence and employee development. | — | 0 |
| Security Specialist, Ford Energy Security Specialist role at Ford Energy, focusing on physical security, fire operations, emergency response, and investigations within a manufacturing plant environment. Requires experience in law enforcement, military, or security, with strong problem-solving and communication skills. The role involves monitoring, incident response, and ensuring compliance with security protocols. | — | 0 |
| Controls Engineer Controls Engineer for Battery Manufacturing at Ford, focusing on automation, robotics (Fanuc), and industrial vision systems to optimize production lines for next-generation battery technologies. Requires strong PLC programming (Siemens, Rockwell) and troubleshooting skills. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Program Leader This role leads new program teams for manufacturing program delivery, from strategy to rate of climb, coordinating with various engineering and planning groups. Responsibilities include tracking deliverables, ensuring safety walks, identifying resource needs, participating in studies, preparing program reviews, and resolving manufacturing program issues. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, 7-10 years of experience in high-volume production/manufacturing, and project/program management experience. | — | 0 |
| Material Control Supervisor Lead Material Control Supervisor at Ford responsible for leading a UAW represented workforce, ensuring operational efficiency, safety compliance, and accurate inventory management. Oversees day-to-day activities in receiving, packaging, replenishment, picking, and shipping processes, driving performance to meet KPIs and foster positive relationships. | — | 0 |
| SAP EWM Functional Analyst This role is for an SAP EWM Functional Analyst at Ford, focusing on delivering business outcomes for warehousing and outbound logistics. The role involves understanding requirements, developing functional specifications, testing, providing hyper-care support, and collaborating with technical resources. A key aspect is exploring the adoption of AI capabilities within EWM platforms. | — | 0 |
| Industrial Hygienist, Ford Energy The Industrial Hygienist will be responsible for identifying, evaluating, and controlling occupational health hazards in a Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) manufacturing environment. This role requires expertise in industrial hygiene programs, exposure assessment, risk monitoring, hazard control, chemical safety, and medical surveillance, ensuring compliance with OSHA and corporate standards. | — | 0 |
| Transmission and Driveline Controls Engineer Software engineer with 4+ years of experience in C/C++ and embedded controls development for automatic transmissions and drivelines. Responsibilities include managing software components, coordinating validation, issue triage, and implementing controls software using C-programming language. Experience with simulation environments, HILs, and vehicles for testing and validation is required. | — | 0 |
| Suspension PD Engineer Mechanical Design Engineer responsible for the end-to-end design, development, and production release of Leaf Spring systems for Ford vehicles, ensuring components meet functional, weight, cost, and quality requirements throughout the product development lifecycle. This role involves CAD management, supplier collaboration, technical reviews, testing oversight, failure analysis, and optimization for mass and cost, with a focus on new technologies like composite leaf springs. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineer This role focuses on applying engineering principles and analytical techniques to improve manufacturing processes and products, with a strong emphasis on quality control, problem-solving, and implementing corrective actions within an industrial setting. It does not involve AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| MP&L Strategy and Planning Senior Manager Senior Manager role focused on leading the global deployment and change management for the conversion of Ford's legacy mainframe MRP system to SAP S4 Hana, optimizing Material Planning & Logistics (MP&L) processes within a complex automotive manufacturing environment. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager, Release Management Program Manager, Release Management at Ford focusing on the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle for electric vehicles, ensuring timely and high-quality releases from development to mass production and over-the-air updates. This role involves release planning, program execution, stakeholder management, risk management, and process optimization within Agile and CI/CD frameworks. | — | 0 |
| Pretreatment & Electrocoat Manufacturing Engineer This role focuses on the engineering and optimization of pretreatment and electrocoat systems in automotive assembly plants. Responsibilities include process development, technology research for anti-corrosion, performance analysis, CFD simulation for coating optimization, ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations, and project management for manufacturing lines. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering and experience with E-Coat systems, coating processes, DOE, and CAD/CFD software. | — | 0 |
| Senior Drive Unit Lubrication and Thermals Engineer Senior Engineer responsible for the design, analysis, and testing of drive unit components for Ford's next-generation EV drivetrains, from concept to production. Requires expertise in mechanical engineering, CAD, FEA, and powertrain hardware development. | — | 0 |
| Product Cybersecurity Manager, Ford Energy This role focuses on Product Cybersecurity for Ford's Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) portfolio. The manager will be responsible for implementing, validating, and optimizing security controls throughout the product lifecycle, from hardware development to deployment. Key responsibilities include end-to-end security architecture, hardware/firmware hardening, threat modeling, penetration testing, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. The role requires deep technical expertise in embedded systems, firmware, and hardware security, with a strong emphasis on offensive security validation and cross-functional leadership. | — | 0 |
| Software Product Engineer Software Product Engineer responsible for the end-to-end integration and delivery of the 3D Vehicle Avatar experience using Unreal Engine on QNX and Android Automotive platforms. This role involves managing engineering complexity, optimizing assets, and ensuring high-fidelity visual quality within strict hardware constraints. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Systems Engineer Manufacturing Systems Engineer at Ford responsible for providing engineering leadership throughout new model development programs, applying lean manufacturing principles to ensure quality and efficiency in vehicle manufacturing processes. This includes upfront program engineering, managing build events (DCV & PCF), and leading launch activities, ensuring all manufacturing systems and metrology are ready for production. | — | 0 |
| Product Development Engineer Product Development Engineer at Ford focusing on designing, implementing, simulating, validating, and optimizing electronic control units and high-speed digital circuits for next-generation vehicles. Responsibilities include schematic capture, layout implementation, worst-case analysis, documentation, failure mode analysis, test plan formulation, validation testing, and root cause analysis, with close collaboration with other engineering teams and suppliers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Maintenance Supervisor This role is for a Senior Maintenance Supervisor at Ford, focusing on leading an hourly team in a manufacturing environment. Key responsibilities include ensuring workplace safety, driving operational excellence, strategic problem-solving, team leadership and development, data-driven decision making, continuous improvement, conflict resolution, and collaboration. Requires fundamental knowledge of PLC logic and controls, and ability to troubleshoot robot and automation issues. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and evolving cloud-native services for Ford's retail consumers using Java Springboot and GCP. Responsibilities include leading microservices development, championing best practices, implementing observability, and driving performance engineering initiatives. Requires strong GCP, Spring Boot, and Java experience, along with Agile and CI/CD practices. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Platform Software Engineer — Global Connected Vehicle Platform Software Engineer role focused on building and operating cloud-native microservices for Ford's connected vehicle platform. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of software services, scaling and optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability through testing and monitoring. | — | 0 |
| ADAS Simulation Engineer This role focuses on engineering and validating Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) features through simulation. The engineer will build and utilize simulation models, integrate ECU models, debug software issues, create virtual test scenarios, and develop simulation tooling and processes. The goal is to accelerate iterative testing and reduce reliance on physical vehicle testing. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Maintenance Supervisor - Stamping This role is for a Sr. Maintenance Supervisor at Ford, focusing on leading a team in a manufacturing plant to ensure operational excellence, safety, and quality in production. It involves managing daily execution, problem-solving, team leadership, and data-driven decision-making within an industrial setting. | — | 0 |
| Senior Maintenance Supervisor, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan This role is for a Senior Maintenance Supervisor at a new Ford battery manufacturing facility. The primary responsibilities include leading an hourly team to ensure operational excellence, safety, and quality in maintenance and project work. Key tasks involve planning and scheduling maintenance activities, managing work packages, coordinating multi-discipline work, ensuring data accuracy in CMMS, and adhering to safety and compliance standards. The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, continuous improvement, and team leadership within an industrial manufacturing environment. | — | 0 |
| Superintendent This role is for a Warehouse Superintendent at Ford, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of a Parts Distribution Center. Key responsibilities include managing inbound/outbound logistics, inventory accuracy, building maintenance, safety, and labor relations with the UAW. The role requires strong leadership, organizational skills, and experience in a plant or warehouse environment. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager - Cloud/Mobile This role is for a Technical Program Manager in Ford's Connected Vehicle Software division. The TPM will own cross-team initiatives, define project goals and roadmaps, establish and track technical success metrics, translate customer requirements, resolve technical issues, and lead retrospectives. The role requires experience in product or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services, familiarity with DevOps tools and software development practices, and experience leading cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Specialist- Test This role focuses on establishing and improving manufacturing test processes and products within Ford's manufacturing team. Responsibilities include troubleshooting machinery and automation, monitoring test systems, reprogramming equipment, and resolving test rejects. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering and experience in manufacturing testing, with a preference for Six Sigma Black Belt certification. | — | 0 |
| Hardware Integration Engineer The Hardware Integration Engineer role at Ford focuses on optimizing vehicle hardware systems, driving cost reduction, weight minimization, and quality improvements. This involves leading systems-level sign-off, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and managing trade-offs to ensure successful product delivery. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering and experience in automotive systems design, with a strong emphasis on Systems Engineering Fundamentals and Design Thinking. | — | 0 |
| Senior Production Supervisor - Stamping Senior Production Supervisor at Ford responsible for leading an hourly team in a manufacturing environment, focusing on safety, operational excellence, strategic problem-solving, team leadership, data-driven decision making, continuous improvement, conflict resolution, and accountability. The role emphasizes driving quality and efficiency in production. | — | 0 |
| BESS Battery Module Program Manager, Ford Energy Program Manager for Battery Module Development at Ford Energy, focusing on end-to-end product lifecycle from architecture definition to production stabilization. This role requires leading cross-functional teams, managing suppliers, and ensuring disciplined execution of timing, scope, quality, and cost for next-generation BESS battery modules. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Engineer, Automation & Controls, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan Manufacturing Engineer at Ford focused on automation and controls for a new battery park facility. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with manufacturing systems, troubleshooting production issues (PLC, HMI, robots), programming automation systems, and collaborating with IT. Requires experience with PLC programming (Siemens/Allen-Bradley) and networking protocols. Knowledge of Mfg 4.0 principles including AI/ML is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Team Manager, Production & Maintenance, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan Team Manager for a battery park manufacturing facility, focusing on production, maintenance, safety, quality, delivery, cost, people, and environment objectives. Requires leadership experience in an automated manufacturing setting. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Engineer Manufacturing Engineer role focused on designing and implementing conveyor systems and facility layouts for automotive production, involving feasibility studies, risk assessments, AutoCAD design, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to optimize efficiency, safety, and operational performance. The role requires a Bachelor's/Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent, 3-5 years of manufacturing experience, and proficiency in AutoCAD and Teamcenter. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - OTA Platform Staff Software Engineer for Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team, focusing on the In-Vehicle OTA Platform. The role involves owning and evolving the OTA software update engine, designing reliable and safe update orchestration logic, writing production-quality async Rust, and building developer tooling. Collaboration with embedded firmware, vehicle software, and cloud infrastructure teams is key. The position requires strong experience in async Rust, Linux systems, and state machine design for distributed or embedded systems. | — | 0 |
| Staff Design Industrialization Engineer This role focuses on industrialization engineering for electric powertrains, bridging engineering and supply chain teams. Responsibilities include ensuring alignment on requirements, providing feedback on part designs and drawings, improving specification development procedures, and managing the transition to high-volume production. The role involves evaluating supplier capabilities, defining quality goals, and ensuring manufacturability and cost optimization. | — | 0 |
| Controls Standards Engineer This role focuses on establishing and enforcing standards for robotic automation and controls in manufacturing, ensuring quality, consistency, and safety. It involves providing expert direction for robotic applications, developing standardized solutions, benchmarking best practices, and fostering relationships with vendors. The engineer will also provide expertise in product and process design related to robotic applications and automation systems, and support program planning teams. | — | 0 |
| Embedded Software Engineer The role involves designing and developing Autosar-based embedded software components and low-level I/O hardware drivers for micro-controller-based products at Ford Motor Company. Responsibilities include analyzing, programming, debugging, and modifying drivers using C, Python, and assembly code, ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality code, and working with various teams to create reusable software components. | — | 0 |
| Dir, System Integration & QA Director of System Integration & QA for Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team, focusing on developing and testing In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. The role involves leading QA, System Integration, and System Engineering teams, applying system engineering principles, defining testing and release processes, and managing project timelines. Requires extensive experience in end-to-end software integration, debugging, Agile methodologies, and building automotive software integration teams. | — | 0 |
| Production Supervisor-MP&L Production Supervisor at Ford responsible for leading an hourly team, ensuring safety, operational excellence, quality, and continuous improvement. This role focuses on team leadership, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making within a manufacturing environment. | — | 0 |
| Infotainment Software Developer – User Interface (HMI) & APP Software Developer role focused on developing application layer software, user interfaces, and integrating APIs for Ford's SYNC infotainment system, including support for mobile devices and speech recognition. Requires experience in C++, Java/Kotlin, and QML/Qt. | — | 0 |
| SAP Technical Lead This role is for a SAP Technical Lead focused on building side-by-side extensions using SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and modern ABAP development paradigms like ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP). Responsibilities include API development, BTP extension development, modern ABAP coding, data modeling with CDS Views and HANA, collaboration with other teams, testing, and performance tuning. Requires 8+ years of SAP ABAP development experience, with strong RAP and S/4HANA extensibility expertise. | — | 0 |
| ADAS Software Engineer Responsible for delivering key software framework functionality in the development of Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) technologies at Ford. This involves working closely with ADAS feature teams to deliver software solutions, contributing to the design and implementation of core infrastructure frameworks on embedded devices in C++, developing offboard support tooling in Python, and designing/executing test tooling for software verification and validation. The role also includes facilitating integration, testing, and debugging on target embedded hardware, and shaping production software development processes. Experience with AUTOSAR, MISRA, ROS, QNX, and automotive sensors (camera, radar, lidar) is required. | — | 0 |
| Functional Safety Engineer This role focuses on functional safety engineering for embedded software in automotive systems, ensuring compliance with ISO26262 standards. Responsibilities include developing safety work products, creating requirements, modeling, planning and executing design verification, and collaborating with software teams. Testing involves SIL, HIL, and vehicle-level environments. | — | 0 |
| Automation Engineer, Final Assembly Automation Engineer role focused on final assembly tooling, managing controls engineers and designers, ensuring quality and standardization, and troubleshooting automated equipment in a production environment at Ford. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Specialist, Process This role supports Manufacturing Process Engineering for Body Assembly at Ford, focusing on continuous improvement in safety, quality, and productivity. Responsibilities include applying engineering principles, developing action plans for quality concerns, conducting process audits, analyzing root causes, creating process sheets, resolving assembly concerns, and ensuring compliance with standards. The role requires a High School Diploma and 5+ years of related experience, with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and specific experience in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and various problem-solving methodologies preferred. | — | 0 |
| Team Manager - Maintenance Team Manager for Maintenance at Ford, focusing on safety, quality, delivery, cost, people, and environment within manufacturing operations. Requires a Bachelor's in Engineering with 5 years of maintenance/engineering experience, strong leadership, problem-solving, and knowledge of the Ford Production System and Six Sigma. Preferred experience in Lean Manufacturing and managing a unionized workforce. | — | 0 |
| Powertrain Controls Simulation Model Developer - Plant Modeling This role focuses on developing high-fidelity plant models (engines, electrical networks, transmissions) for automotive powertrain controls simulation. The goal is to create virtual environments for testing and validating control software using Model-in-the-Loop (MIL), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, thereby reducing the need for physical prototypes. The role involves architecting and designing models in Simulink/Simscape, leading projects, developing parameterization strategies, integrating with simulation infrastructure, and validating models using CI pipelines. It's a hybrid role combining physical systems modeling with software engineering best practices. | — | 0 |
| Manager, PC Renewal Operations – N. America Manager for Ford's PC Renewal Operations in North America, responsible for end-to-end program outcomes, device delivery, asset data accuracy, and operational controls. The role focuses on improving speed, accuracy, compliance, and customer experience through managing a budget, suppliers, and a team. | — | 0 |
| Motorsports Program Engineer This role manages the execution of Ford Racing Off-Road Motorsports programs, overseeing program lifecycles for high-profile events. It involves collaborating with internal engineers and external partners to design, build, and race off-road vehicles, managing supplier relationships, and championing continuous improvement initiatives. The role also focuses on transferring racing technology into future production vehicles and supporting trackside operations. | — | 0 |