Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Need software engineer to work on in-house developed apps in Physical Verification / CAE domain with the knowledge of OOP concepts, JAVA/Angular programming and Python programming. Job involves software engineering responsibilities in CAE domain such as understanding the requirement, design and develop the solution, problem debugging and analysis, testing the developed components/models and pushing the tested module to the version-controlled environment (GitHub). Experience in AI System Integration - Embedding AI models into existing software architectures, APIs, and enterprise applications and prompt engineering preferred.

Note: Ford GSR 7 position on-site Ford Chennai office, India

Develops software to deliver user stories that contribute to a valuable working software product.
Develops automated unit tests with working software, to confirm software functionality conformance to functional and non-functional requirements.
Develops automated functional tests to confirm user story acceptance and to detect regression defects.
Have good understanding of the product’s value/use.
Has a thorough knowledge of the services handled by the Product Team
Ensures that quality is built into their software throughout the development lifecycle.
Performs exploratory testing to confirm application execution and to identify software deficiencies not covered by automated testing.
Reviews continuous integration build status and fixes build failures.
Improves continuous integration tooling by automating manual processes within the delivery pipeline and improving quality gates based on past learnings.
Reviews ongoing production software operations and troubleshoots production issues.
Implements tooling that monitors application performance metrics and automatically notifies team when a failure occurs in production.
Uses agile techniques to deliver small, incremental changes continuously while working with the Product Manager and Product Designer to ensure customer needs are met.
Applies software craftsman principles like clean code and test-driven development
Active participant in all team agile ceremonies:

Backlog Refinement/Iteration Planning
Stand-up

Provides input to product governance communications

Triages incidents and provides production support

Embedding AI models into existing software architectures, APIs, and enterprise applications.
5+ years of experience of utilizing Java/Python full stack to design scalable web applications by leveraging microservices architecture and APIGEE / RESTful APIs.
3+ years of experience of utilizing Angular to create user friendly front-end and enable real-time data updates in the web application user interface.’
Minimum 5+ SQL / Oracle database experience or PostGres
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) development (Cloud Run, Pub Sub, GCS Bucket) and deployment experience
Docker, and Kubernetes experience
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong in functional, integration and regression testing manually and automatically
Experience working complex SQL queries to retrieve and analyze data in relational database
Familiarity with GitHub or equivalent source control repositories
Experience with test-driven development practices
Experience troubleshooting application and performance issues.
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to multi-task and manage changing priorities
Ability to work independently and take initiative when facing unexpected problems
Bachelor’s Degree is required;