Ford Motor Company

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: DearbornMissouriUnited States

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Salary

💰 $99,600 - $166,600 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, prototype, validate, and productionize traditional ML models and GenAI/LLM-based solutions (including RAG and agentic workflows) to meet business objectives across credit products.
  • Translate business problems into technical solutions: define metrics, success criteria, evaluation strategy, and experimentation plans for both ML models and GenAI experiences.
  • Own end-to-end model/system lifecycle for assigned use cases, including data ingestion and lineage, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining/re-optimization.
  • Build and operationalize AI agents that automate business processes and augment agent-assist workflows, including:
  • tool-using agent patterns, multi-step orchestration
  • memory/state management and safe handoffs to humans
  • secure connector design to upstream/downstream systems
  • integration into APIs, microservices, or agent frameworks
  • Ensure explainability, fairness, and regulatory compliance for credit/financial use cases. Produce required documentation and artifacts for model risk and audit.
  • Integrate solutions into production by collaborating with software engineers and MLOps teams (e.g., model/LLM services, RAG services, agent runtimes) and supporting CI/CD for ML/GenAI components.
  • Instrument monitoring and observability across the full lifecycle:
  • traditional ML: performance, drift, data quality, latency
  • GenAI/agents: quality/safety metrics, grounding/citation quality, tool-call reliability, latency/cost, and drift in retrieval inputs
  • define retraining and incident playbooks, and lead mitigation/rollback actions.
  • Build robust evaluation pipelines for both paradigms:
  • holdout strategies, cross-validation, backtesting
  • uplift/A-B testing frameworks and business impact estimation
  • scenario-based and simulation-based testing for agent behavior and GenAI responses.
  • Drive responsible AI and safety for agents/LLMs, including guardrails (authorization/scope limits, confirmation flows, human-in-the-loop escalation), bias mitigation, and privacy-by-design (PII handling).
  • Communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership—articulating model/system behavior, limitations, risks, and measurable outcomes.
  • Mentor and raise team capability in reproducible ML engineering and agent/GenAI development practices.
  • Coordinate with data engineering to ensure reliable, documented data sources and lineage.
  • Keep abreast of emerging AI safety practices and recommend improvements to guardrails and SDLC processes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (e.g., Machine Learning, Statistics, Data Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering) or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of applied ML/AI experience (or equivalent) with demonstrated hands-on delivery in production environments.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python and modern engineering practices (testing, modular design, reliable pipelines, maintainability).
  • Production ML and MLOps experience: Docker, CI/CD, model serving, monitoring/observability, and experience working with orchestrated pipelines (e.g., Kubernetes and/or equivalent).
  • Strong data skills: advanced SQL and experience with big data platforms (e.g., BigQuery, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake) and/or streaming/event-driven systems.
  • Traditional ML expertise: practical experience building and productionizing models for credit use cases (e.g., classification, regression, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, graph-based fraud approaches).
  • GenAI/LLM expertise: hands-on experience building and evaluating LLM-based systems, including RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation of response quality/grounding, and conversational AI/agent-assist applications.
Benefits
  • 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningartificial intelligencePythonSQLDockerKubernetesbig dataRAGprompt engineeringmodel evaluation
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingleadership
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMachine LearningData ScienceElectrical Engineering