Manufacturing Platform Lead, Cloud & Data

Ford; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford is seeking an engineering leader to own the software platforms, cloud services, and operational tools that support product manufacturing, deployment, diagnostics, and lifecycle management.

You will shape the manufacturing software infrastructure for bring-up, validation, provisioning, deployment, quality tracking, and production readiness across NPI, engineering, manufacturing, cloud, quality, and support teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform development.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams or significant technical initiatives.
• Experience developing cloud-based platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience building operational tooling, automation, monitoring, and data-processing systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, release management, and software-delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own Manufacturing Software Infrastructure.
• Define and execute the long-term strategy for software infrastructure supporting manufacturing and operations.
• Build and maintain platforms for manufacturing execution, provisioning, diagnostics, validation, and release readiness.
• Establish end-to-end traceability across software, hardware, test results, and manufacturing outcomes.
• Develop scalable architectures that support current and future manufacturing needs.
• Lead cloud solutions for manufacturing operations.
• Build operational support platforms for diagnostic capabilities, monitoring, and automation.
• Enable manufacturing readiness with frameworks for deployment, validation, and production readiness.
• Provide cross-functional technical leadership across NPI, engineering, manufacturing, security and cloud teams.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Leadership

CI/CD

DevOps

Monitoring systems

Data analytics

Manufacturing software

Security practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Tools

GCP

Azure

Containers

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Ford is seeking an engineering leader to own the software platforms, cloud services, and operational tools that support product manufacturing, deployment, diagnostics, and lifecycle management.

You will shape the manufacturing software infrastructure for bring-up, validation, provisioning, deployment, quality tracking, and production readiness across NPI, engineering, manufacturing, cloud, quality, and support teams.