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Ford Motor Company

Software Lead, Manufacturing Infrastructure

Ford Motor Company

. Own the manufacturing software infrastructure and define its long-term strategy .

Posted 10/27/2026full-timeLong Beach • California • United StatesSenior💰 $167,200 - $316,600 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developing and maintaining manufacturing software infrastructure, with a strong focus on cloud-based platforms, operational tooling, and data processing systems. Proven ability to lead engineering teams and collaborate across multiple disciplines to ensure product readiness and operational health.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Cloud-Based Platform DevelopmentOperational Tooling and AutomationCI/CD and DevOps PracticesManufacturing Software and NPI ProcessesData Pipeline and Analytics Solutions

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringPlatform DevelopmentData Processing SystemsManufacturing SoftwareCloud-Native ServicesContainersTelemetry PlatformsMonitoring and DiagnosticsRelease Management
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationIssue ResolutionCommunication
Tools & Technologies
GCPAzureCI/CD ToolsDevOps ToolsAutomation Tools
Industry Keywords
Manufacturing ExecutionNPI ProcessesProduction EnvironmentsEmbedded SystemsConnected Devices

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the manufacturing software infrastructure and define its long-term strategy
  • Build and maintain platforms for manufacturing execution, provisioning, diagnostics, validation, and release readiness
  • Establish end-to-end traceability across software, hardware, test results, and manufacturing outcomes
  • Develop scalable architectures for current and future manufacturing needs
  • Standardize collection, storage, processing, and presentation of manufacturing data with NPI and manufacturing teams
  • Integrate logs, test results, diagnostics, yield metrics, and quality data across manufacturing sites and suppliers
  • Deliver dashboards and reporting tools for manufacturing health and product readiness
  • Partner with cloud platform teams to deliver cloud-native manufacturing and operational workflows
  • Develop monitoring, diagnostics, provisioning, analytics, and software distribution services
  • Build operational support tools, diagnostic capabilities, workflows, and automation
  • Develop manufacturing, deployment, and production-validation readiness frameworks
  • Automate product bring-up, qualification, factory acceptance, provisioning, and release validation
  • Establish operational health metrics, monitoring, and alerting
  • Collaborate with NPI, engineering, manufacturing, quality, supplier, security, cloud, and operations teams
  • Define software contracts, workflows, and interfaces between manufacturing systems and engineering platforms
  • Lead technical decisions and issue resolution across organizational and geographic boundaries

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform development
  • 3+ years leading engineering teams or significant technical initiatives
  • Experience developing cloud-based platforms and distributed systems
  • Experience building operational tooling, automation, monitoring, and data-processing systems
  • Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, release management, and software-delivery pipelines
  • Experience with manufacturing software, factory operations, NPI processes, or production environments
  • Experience building data pipelines, telemetry platforms, or analytics solutions
  • Experience with GCP and Azure, cloud-native services, containers, and infrastructure automation
  • Experience supporting connected devices, embedded systems, automotive products, or hardware-integrated software
  • Experience collecting and analyzing manufacturing logs, diagnostics, validation data, and test-execution data
  • Familiarity with secure provisioning, certificate management, secure boot, and production security
  • Experience working directly with external suppliers and manufacturing partners
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

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
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
  • Fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • Generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
  • Paid time off
  • Option to purchase additional vacation time