Forward Deployed Engineer Advanced Manufacturing, Ford Energy
Ford Motor Company
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- Location
- Dearborn, MI
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Nov 4
- 2 days ago
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Ford Motor Company
Automotive · 10,001+ employees
Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS). Ford Energy is uniquely positioned to capture the growing demand for reliable, US-built energy storage systems. We are not just building batteries; we are building the infrastructure for the next generation of the American grid.
What you need
- Technical Depth: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, manufacturing systems engineer, industrial software engineer, solutions engineer, or similar hands-on engineering role. Strong background in building production software, integrating systems, and operating across application, cloud, edge, and data layers.
- Manufacturing and Industrial Systems Experience: Demonstrated experience working with manufacturing environments, automation systems, plant-floor data, MES integrations, industrial equipment, quality systems, maintenance workflows, or production operations. Familiarity with highly automated facilities, controls-adjacent systems, and launch/ramp environments is strongly preferred.
- IIoT and Edge Connectivity: Hands-on familiarity with IIoT architectures, MQTT, OPC-UA, edge gateways, industrial protocols, event-driven architectures, time-series data, sensor data ingestion, and secure connectivity between plant-floor systems and cloud platforms is required.
- Manufacturing Analytics: Ability to build or support analytics for OEE, throughput, downtime, cycle time, bottleneck detection, quality, scrap, traceability, energy consumption, and asset performance. Experience turning noisy operational data into trusted metrics, dashboards, alerts, and decision-support tools is highly valued.
- Modern Stack Experience: Experience with Go, Python, TypeScript, API design, OpenShift, GCP, or comparable cloud platforms, containerized services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and secure production operations. Experience working in highly secured environments with identity and access management, secrets handling, vulnerability remediation, audit logging, network controls, and secure deployment practices is strongly preferred. Experience with data platforms, streaming architectures, and AI/ML-enabled automation is a plus.
- Bias for Deployed Outcomes: A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes operational problems from first conversation to working software in production. Comfortable being judged on measurable manufacturing outcomes, not just code written or designs produced.
- Adaptability and Field Readiness: Comfortable working in fast-changing manufacturing environments, spending time onsite with operators and engineers, troubleshooting real systems, and balancing speed with safety, reliability, cybersecurity, secure access, maintainability, and uptime requirements in highly controlled production environments.
- Communication and Influence: Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to translate between software engineering, controls, operations, quality, maintenance, product, and business stakeholders as a hands-on individual contributor.
- High Autonomy, High Accountability: Comfortable operating with minimal process and significant latitude, owning the consequences of what you ship, and building the playbook for software-defined manufacturing as the organization scales.
- 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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Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS). Ford Energy is uniquely positioned to capture the growing demand for reliable, US-built energy storage systems. We are not just building batteries; we are building the infrastructure for the next generation of the American grid.
At Ford Energy, you have the backing of an industrial manufacturing powerhouse with the agility of a dedicated energy startup offering industry leading technology. We offer a competitive compensation package including performance-based bonuses, Ford vehicle discounts, and the opportunity to shape the energy strategy of one of the world's most iconic brands. Learn more at https://fordenergy.com.