DevOps Engineer – ADAS Platform at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI

• Design, build, and operate enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms supporting ADAS software development.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize GitHub Actions workflows for C/C++, Python, and multi-language build pipelines.
• Support and improve Bazel-based build systems, including build performance, caching, and CI integration.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Build, maintain, and deploy Docker containers and support Kubernetes-based workloads.
• Partner with software engineers to integrate CI/CD best practices into C/C++ development workflows.
• Improve reliability and observability of CI/CD systems through monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional ADAS teams to remove DevOps, build, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Implement secure CI/CD practices including secrets management, artifact signing, and access controls. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Hands-on, production experience with GitHub Actions for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• 2+ years of experience with Docker-based containerization.
• 2+ years of experience with Linux fundamentals  
• 2+ years of experience with scripting Python  
• 2+ years of experience working with C and/or C++ codebases and build tooling.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across diverse engineering teams.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for large mono-repos or multi-repo environments.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience supporting Bazel build systems in CI environments.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployments and operational patterns.
• Experience with build optimization techniques such as remote caching and parallelization in Bazel.
• Familiarity with backend services or APIs built in Python (FastAPI, Flask, or Django).
• Experience implementing CI/CD observability, metrics, and alerting.
• Experience operating workloads on public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Interest or familiarity with ADAS, embedded systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle software.

Nice to Have

• Experience with self-hosted GitHub Actions runners.
• Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.
• Experience supporting ML or data-intensive CI workflows. 

You 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!

As 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:

• 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.
 

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99,600-$166,600.    


For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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