Forward Deployed Engineer, Ford Energy

In this position... 
While we leverage industry-standard platforms for our core ERP, CRM, and MES capabilities, our hardest and high-value problems live at the edge — where customers, operations, physical assets, and data meet software. These are not generic applications for generic business functions. They are custom-built solutions to real operational problems for real customers, built where buying a platform doesn't make sense and where we can move faster and smarter by building ourselves, accelerated by AI. 

We are seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to sit at the intersection of engineering and business impact. This is a hands-on individual contributor role for engineers who want to own outcomes, not tickets. Engineers will be directly embedded with internal stakeholders and external customers to understand real operational problems, then designing, building and deploying the software that solves them. You'll work across the full stack: application development, cloud infrastructure on GCP, enterprise data platform for AI scale, integrations with manufacturing and warehousing technology, and automation and tooling that take an idea to a production deploying. 

This role is built for engineers who thrive in ambiguity, want direct exposure to the business and customer problems they're solving, and want outsized ownership and accountability over what they ship. You will not be handed a fully specified spec, instead you will be in the room helping define the problem, and then you'll build and deploy the answer. 

We are building Ford Energy's engineering organization to be AI-native from day one, not an organization that bolts AI onto existing process, but one where intelligent automation, orchestration and applied AI/ML are simply how work gets done. 

This is an onsite role reporting to the Software Engineering Manager.