Platform Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Senior Software Engineer designing and implementing AI capabilities in data analytics platform. Requires strong experience in software engineering and AI-powered applications.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeChennai • 🇮🇳 IndiaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularPythonReactSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive the design and implementation of core AI capabilities within our Intelligent Data Analytics Platform (Lightspeed)
Write production-grade code, solving the hardest problems, and setting engineering standards through example
Contribute to the design of scalable, multi-agent AI architectures for data discovery and query generation
Build performant backend services (Python/FastAPI) and interactive frontends (Angular/React) for data exploration
Implement LLM-powered workflows including NL-to-SQL generation, semantic search, and metadata enrichment
Actively participate in code reviews and set quality standards through your own contributions
Partner with Product, Data Engineering, and Platform teams on feature delivery
Help onboard new team members and share domain expertise

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software engineering with strong hands-on coding ability
Experience building AI-powered applications or working with LLM-based systems in production
Ability to take ambiguous requirements and deliver working, tested software independently
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across the full stack
Track record of owning and delivering complex features end-to-end
Nice to Have: Experience with Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) or similar agent frameworks (AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph)
Exposure to NL-to-SQL or text-to-code generation systems
Knowledge of ML fundamentals — embeddings, classification, clustering, evaluation metrics
Experience with vector databases and semantic retrieval optimization
Familiarity with data governance (metadata management, lineage, data quality)
Experience building developer tooling or platform SDKs

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonFastAPIAngularReactAI-powered applicationsLLM-based systemsNL-to-SQL generationsemantic searchmetadata enrichmentdebugging

Soft Skills

problem-solvingindependent deliverycode reviewsteam collaborationonboardingdomain expertise