Manager, Cloud Platform Quality Engineering

Ford Motor Company; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 167,200 - 316,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Parental leave

Vehicle discount

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a technical leader to own the end-to-end E2E system testing and validation strategy for our next-generation connected vehicle ecosystem. You will lead a high-performing team ensuring seamless integration across vehicle, cloud, and mobile platforms.

You’ll design validation blueprints, establish automated testing capabilities, and drive E2E test execution within CI/CD, partnering with hardware, cloud, and mobile teams to deliver robust vehicle experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field is required.
• 7+ years in system-level testing, integration, or validation.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define E2E validation strategy across vehicle, cloud, and mobile ecosystems.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams for end-to-end readiness and test coverage.
• Lead defect lifecycle management and triage across hardware, cloud, and mobile domains.
• Oversee environments and test infrastructure including vehicle test systems and cloud staging.
• Drive automation and CI/CD integration for rapid, confident deployments.

Skills

System testing

Leadership

CI/CD

TestRail

Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/CE

Tools

Jira

TestRail

GCP

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position

We are looking for a technical leader to own and drive the end-to-end (E2E) system testing and validation strategy for our next-generation connected vehicle ecosystem. In this role, you will lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for ensuring the seamless integration, reliability, and flawless performance of a highly complex system that connects physical vehicles, cloud-based backend data services, and user-facing mobile applications.

As the owner of E2E system testing, you will bridge the gap between hardware, cloud software, and mobile platforms. You will design the validation blueprints, establish automated testing capabilities, and lead your team to simulate, test, and verify complex user journeys from the vehicle cabin to the cloud, and onto the customer’s smartphone.

What You’ll Do

• Define the E2E Validation Strategy: Architect and execute a comprehensive end-to-end system testing strategy that spans the entire connected vehicle ecosystem (Vehicle TCU/Infotainment → Cloud Platform → Mobile App + Other Devices).
• Cross-Functional Team Collaboration & Alignment: Act as the central integration hub across diverse engineering and validation organizations to ensure seamless end-to-end system readiness:
• In-Vehicle Device Testing Teams: Partner to align hardware-in-the-loop (HIL/SIL) testing, firmware release schedules, and vehicle telemetry validation (CAN/automotive Ethernet) with cloud and mobile environments.
• Mobile Test Teams: Coordinate with native iOS and Android app testing teams to align mobile release trains with E2E system validation cycles, ensuring feature parity and seamless user experiences (e.g., remote commands, vehicle status updates).
• Cloud & Electrification Test Teams: Collaborate with backend verification teams to validate cloud-native APIs, data pipelines, and electrification-specific features (such as EV charging telemetry, battery state-of-charge, and smart charging schedules).
• Test Planning & Case Management: Establish and govern test design standards within TestRail, ensuring comprehensive E2E test coverage, traceability to requirements, and organized execution runs across all collaborating teams.
• Defect Lifecycle & Triage Leadership: Lead complex, cross-domain triaging efforts to isolate and root-cause system failures across wireless networks, APIs, cloud databases, and in-vehicle modules. Own the defect lifecycle in Jira, ensuring clear reproduction steps and routing issues to the correct hardware, mobile, or cloud engineering squads.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Build, lead, and mentor a team of system test and validation engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and an automation-first mindset.
• Environment & Mobile Infrastructure Ownership: Oversee the design and maintenance of end-to-end test environments, including simulated vehicle test systems, GCP staging environments, and mobile device testing configurations across native iOS and Android systems.
• Automation & Continuous Integration: Drive the transition from manual validation to robust, automated E2E test suites. Integrate E2E test execution into CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, confident deployments.

You’ll have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in system-level testing, integration, or product validation.
• 3+ years of experience leading, managing, or mentoring technical engineering teams.

Even better, if you have

• Proven experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., hardware/embedded systems, cloud platforms, and mobile apps) to validate complex, distributed systems.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience validating cloud-native architectures, specifically within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (e.g., Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, BigQuery, GKE).
• Mobile Ecosystems: Deep familiarity with the iOS and Android application development and testing systems (including TestFlight, Google Play Console, and Android/iOS developer tools).
• Test & Project Management: Advanced proficiency with Jira for agile workflow management and defect tracking, and TestRail for test case management and execution tracking.
• Protocols & APIs: Strong understanding of end-to-end system architectures, APIs (REST, gRPC, WebSockets), and data transport protocols (MQTT, HTTP).

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 leadership level 5 and ranges from $167,200-$316,600.

Final 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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL5

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates 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.

We 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. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location will be required to be onsite four or more days per week.