Ford Motor Company

Software Product Engineer

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: DearbornMissouriUnited States

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Salary

💰 $84,480 - $162,120 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle for a set of features or digital experience domains from concept through release sign-off.
  • Define the product execution path by answering: “What should we build, why does it matter, and how do we build it the right way?”
  • Translate PRDs, design artifacts, and system behavior requirements into clear software deliverables — i.e. epics and sprint-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria in Jira.
  • Lead feasibility assessment, scope definition, and backlog readiness for PI planning; manage change/churn while protecting milestones.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment with Product, Digital Product Design, Architecture, Engineering, and Test to ensure shared understanding of intent, priorities, and dependencies.
  • Validate end-to-end feature behavior on bench/vehicle through demos and product truth sessions; ensure implementation matches UX intent and functional expectations.
  • Lead defect triage and prioritization for owned features; drive issues to closure through root-cause direction, retest strategy, and stakeholder communication.
  • Maintain clear execution visibility via epic status summaries, risk registers/mitigation plans, and regular stakeholder updates.
  • Ensure test coverage alignment by reviewing/confirming that test cases map to story acceptance criteria and key edge cases.
  • Identify and define the logworthies and analytics instrumentation required for each feature.

Requirements

  • Education: BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • Experience: 5+ years (or equivalent) delivering complex, cross-functional software features in embedded, automotive, or adjacent domains; demonstrated ownership across multiple teams and releases.
  • Direct experience with Android Automotive/QNX, infotainment HMIs, and automotive middleware/service architectures.
  • Backlog leadership: Proven ability to author high-quality epics and user stories (clear scope, testable acceptance criteria, dependency mapping) and drive Agile execution (grooming, PI planning, sprint delivery).
  • Systems integration mindset: Ability to reason about end-to-end behavior across HMI ↔ middleware/services ↔ vehicle signal access (via API abstraction) and drive integration/validation outcomes.
  • Technical proficiency: Strong technical depth to lead engineers—comfortable with architecture discussions, interface contracts, and failure-mode thinking.
  • Diagnostics/triage: Experience leading defect triage using logs and traces (e.g., ADB/dev logs; CAN trace familiarity), defining diagnostic logging (logworthies), and driving disciplined prioritization/closure.
  • Tools: Proficiency with Jira and Confluence; comfortable creating traceability to requirements/design artifacts and managing dependencies. Proficiency with CAN-based feature behaviors and vehicle state modeling; exposure to tools such as CANalyzer/Wireshark (or similar).
  • Communication/leadership: Strong cross-functional leadership skills—can drive decisions, align stakeholders, and communicate risks/status crisply to technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Agile executionepicsuser storiessystems integrationdiagnosticsdefect triageAPI abstractionarchitecture discussionsfailure-mode thinkingtest coverage alignment
Soft Skills
cross-functional leadershipstakeholder communicationdecision drivingalignment of stakeholdersrisk communication