Sr. Software Engineer, AI Specialist

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, MI +1 · Global Data Insight & Analytics

Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of AI capabilities within an Intelligent Data Analytics Platform, focusing on multi-agent orchestration and semantic search. The role involves hands-on engineering of AI-powered applications, LLM integration, agent frameworks, embedding pipelines, and evaluation frameworks, with a focus on production-grade code and end-to-end feature ownership in a cloud environment (GCP).

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to the design of scalable, multi-agent AI architectures.
  2. Produce production-grade code across agent frameworks, backend APIs, and frontend interfaces on a daily basis.
  3. Develop services that enable intelligent data access, such as vector search, hybrid retrieval, and query scope management.
  4. Implement vector embedding pipelines for metadata discovery using pgvector.
  5. Serve as the team's technical anchor and primary point of reference for complex implementation challenges.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Angular/React
  • Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Cloud Run)
  • LangChain/LangGraph
  • OpenAI and Gemini APIs
  • prompt engineering
  • retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines
  • pgvector
  • vector search
  • hybrid search
  • evaluation frameworks
  • LLM-based systems in production
  • debugging
  • problem-solving

Nice to have

  • Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
  • CrewAI
  • embeddings
  • classification
  • clustering
  • natural language processing
  • vector databases
  • data engineering
  • data governance
  • internal developer tooling
  • platform SDKs

What the JD emphasized

  • hands-on coding proficiency
  • Demonstrable experience building AI-powered applications or operating LLM-based systems in production environments
  • Proven ability to interpret ambiguous requirements and independently deliver functional, well-tested software
  • A demonstrated record of owning and delivering complex features from inception through completion

Other signals

  • multi-agent orchestration
  • semantic search
  • LLM integration
  • production-grade code
  • enterprise data analysis