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Build features and reusable components in React or Angular with TypeScript that help people explore vehicle data.\nStreaming integrations. Write Kafka and Pub/Sub producers and consumers, and learn how to handle retries, failed messages, and message order.\n Cloud deployments. Package apps with Docker and deploy them to OpenShift and GCP (Cloud Run, GKE), including configuration, secrets, and health checks.\n Testing and quality. Write unit and integration tests with JUnit and frontend test tools (for example, Jest or Cypress), take part in code reviews and pairing, and learn test-driven development.\nMonitoring and support. Add logging, alerts, and dashboards in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring, and help troubleshoot production issues using runbooks.\n Good engineering habits. Use Git and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Tekton), keep dependencies up to date, fix issues found by code quality and security scans, and follow secure coding, API security, and data privacy practices.\nAI in practice. Use tools like GitHub Copilot every day for code, tests, and documentation. You'll also help with the team's AI work, for example:building the API and UI for an assistant that answers plain-English questions about vehicle data\ncalling LLM APIs to draft metadata, summaries, or release notes\ntrying simple ways for an AI assistant to answer questions from team documentation\nwriting test cases that check AI output is accurate and safe\n\n Working as a team. Work with senior engineers, the team's technical lead (Anchor), product owners, data engineers, and platform teams to plan work in small pieces and ship them.data engineers, and platform teams to plan work in small pieces and ship them.\n You’ll have…\nA bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.\n1 to 4 years of professional software engineering experience. Strong internships or co-ops count.\nHands-on experience building backend services or REST APIs in Java with Spring Boot.\nWorking knowledge of SQL and relational databases.\nDay-to-day use of Git, and experience writing automated tests (for example, JUnit).\nA basic understanding of Docker and deploying applications to a cloud or container platform.\nThe habit of asking \"how will I know this works?\" and testing before you ship.\nEven better, you may have….\nGCP experience, especially Cloud Run, GKE, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, or Cloud Storage.\nKafka or Pub/Sub, or concepts such as retries, dead-letter queues, and message ordering.\nOpenShift or Kubernetes (deployments, config maps, secrets, health checks).\nCI/CD with GitHub Actions, Tekton, or Jenkins, code scanning tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, or FOSSA, and some Terraform.\nMonitoring with Cloud Monitoring, Dynatrace, Grafana, or Splunk, and setting reliability targets (SLOs).\nAgile practices such as Scrum, XP, test-driven development, or pair programming.\nHands-on work with AI, such as calling an LLM API, building a small RAG app, or an agent. School, hackathon, and personal projects all count.\nPython for scripting or data work.\nExperience with IoT, telemetry, or other time-series data.\nYou may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!\nAs an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:\nImmediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage\nFlexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more\nFamily building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more\nVehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases\nTuition assistance\nEstablished and active employee resource groups\nPaid time off for individual and team community service\nA generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day\nPaid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.\nThis position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $85,400-$143,200.\nThis position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99,600-$166,600.\nFinal determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.\nFor more information on salary and benefits, click here:\nVisa sponsorship is not available for this position.\nCandidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. 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