
Software Product Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United 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