Hybrid ADAS DevOps Engineer

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: ADAS DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $72,480 - $121,440 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Django, Docker, Flask, Google Cloud Platform, JavaScript, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Microservices, Node.js, NoSQL, Python, React, SQL, Terraform, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• ADAS DevOps Engineer within Ford ADAS DevOps Team, responsible for full-stack CI/CD tooling development. Collaborating with engineers to build scalable backend services and integrate into vehicle workflows.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Ford ADAS DevOps Team to deliver CI/CD solutions that increase the productivity of the pipelines in ADAS vehicle development lifecycle.
• Assist with the architectural design and implementation of scalable backend internal tooling for vehicle data processing and algorithm advancement.
• Build out vital microservices and APIs to support cloud-native applications targeting GCP Cloud Run, Dataflow, GCP Managed Services, and Kubernetes (GKE).
• Configure, containerize, and deploy applications developed in technologies such as Node.js and Python to cloud platforms.
• Partner with software and ML engineers to tackle challenging internal web tooling problems and remove infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Work closely with end-users to ensure that delivered solutions appropriately support the rigorous needs of ADAS development.
• Own large parts of the product development lifecycle from design to deploy, including proactively gathering requirements, generating design documents, and managing milestones.

Requirements

• Education: BS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical degree.
• Software Engineering: 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Cloud Services: 3+ years of experience standing up cloud services in a public cloud service provider (GCP preferred).
• Github Action/ Jenkins: 3+ years of building robust and scalable CI pipelines
• Even better, you may have...
• Terraform: Ability to create and maintain terraform code or equivalent technologies for IaC configuration.
• GCP Expertise: Deep and up-to-date experience with developing and running applications in Google Cloud Platform using container orchestration platforms.
• CI/CD Mastery: Strong knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment methodologies and tools.
• API Architecture: Strong understanding of API-centric microservices and the modern application development process.
• Backend Frameworks: Strong experience with FastAPI (preferable), Django, Flask, or Twisted.
• Backend Development: 3+ years of building scalable and maintainable Web APIs with Python 3 in a production environment.
• Web Fundamentals: Expert knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, REST API, Security, CORS, Authentication, Sessions, Caching, Data Structures, and System Architecture.
• Programming Polyglot: Strong understanding of at least one modern object-oriented programming language with knowledge of all stages of software development.
• Database Fundamentals: Experience architecting and maintaining production of SQL and NoSQL Database schemas (preferably within the GCP ecosystem).
• Containerization: Proficiency with Docker images, image repositories, and container orchestration.
• Testing & Logging: Experience writing code for automated test cases and implementing robust logging/monitoring solutions.
• Code Quality: A commitment to scalable and maintainable code using Design Principles, Design Patterns, and TDD.
• Full-Stack Interest: Experience/interest in full-stack development, preferably using JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.
• Domain Interest: Interest in learning about onboard customer web tooling needs: Perception/Prediction, Localization, Mapping, Route/Path Planning, Controls, etc.
• Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies and techniques.
• ADAS Familiarity: Familiarity with robotics, autonomous vehicle topics, and sensor data formats.

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.