Senior Specialist, Yield Management – GTM AA Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Senior Specialist (10+ years) engineering Java/Python applications for vehicle yield management at Ford. Directly involved in AI solutions and enterprise application delivery at Ford Pro.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $115,000 - $192,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAzureBigQueryCloudDockerFlaskGoogle Cloud PlatformJ2EEJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesNumpyOpenShiftPandasPythonReactSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, enterprise-grade applications, spending the majority of your time actively writing clean, secure, and optimized code in Java (Spring Boot, JPA, Kafka) and Python (Flask, Pandas, NumPy).
Design and build cutting-edge data science and pricing optimization dashboards using Plotly Dash, Dash Mantine Components, AG Grid, React JS, and Angular.
Pioneer and champion the use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, MCP integrations, and LLM-assisted engineering) to rapidly prototype internal AI-powered tools and accelerate team-wide developer productivity.
Apply Ford finance, pricing, and yield management domain knowledge to design systems that accurately reflect complex financial constraints and opportunities.
Deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications on Google Cloud Platform, utilizing GCP Cloud Run, BigQuery, Docker, and OpenShift/Kubernetes.
Define and implement robust infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and establish automated deployment pipelines utilizing Tekton or Jenkins.
Work closely within a tight-knit, agile team of AI engineers and business stakeholders to drive immediate business value.
Work closely with business SMEs, data scientists, and architects to define solution architectures, non-functional requirements (NFRs), and robust security integrations (including Azure AD authentication and RBAC).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a highly related engineering field
Minimum of 10+ years (with a strong preference for 15+ years) of professional software engineering experience, spanning full-lifecycle enterprise application delivery from architecture to production support.
Proven experience within the automotive pricing, dynamic pricing, or vehicle yield management domains (experience with Ford-specific pricing and sales systems is highly preferred).
Strong, hands-on expertise in Python (Flask, Pandas, NumPy) and Java/J2EE (Spring Boot, Spring REST, Spring JPA, Kafka, microservices).
Proven expertise in building enterprise analytics dashboards using Plotly Dash, Dash Mantine Components, and AG Grid, alongside experience in React JS and Angular.
Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development workflows, including GitHub Copilot, MCP (Model Context Protocol) frameworks, and rapid prototyping techniques.
Hands-on experience with GCP (Cloud Run, BigQuery, GCS), containerization (Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines (Tekton).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

JavaSpring BootJPAKafkaPythonFlaskPandasNumPyPlotly DashAG Grid

Soft Skills

team collaborationagile methodologycommunicationproblem-solvingleadership

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science