About the position
Join Ford's mission to revolutionize automotive manufacturing through innovative, intelligent software. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you'll be at the intersection of the digital and physical-developing cutting-edge applications that bring data, automation, and intelligence to the factory floor. You'll help build the platforms that power our plants, enabling real-time insights and resilient operations that scale with the future of mobility. This is a great opportunity to drive the delivery of a key enterprise objective in building Ford's flagship products - bring Innovation in Manufacturing to have significant business impact. In this role you will design, develop, and deploy high-performing and scalable full-stack applications for Ford's critical, high-demand systems, engineer robust APIs and dynamic user interfaces, leveraging cloud technologies and adhering to best practices in software development. You will collaborate with a multi-skilled team to deliver innovative solutions while maintaining high standards of code quality, testing, and performance. You get to work with a unique blend of engineers, data scientists, DevOps, automation, controls, manufacturing and robotics specialists - ideating, building and scaling Billion-Dollar ideas for the manufacturing of iconic Ford products. This position requires an individual who is at the forefront of technology frontiers and believes in bringing the latest and greatest to Ford's plant floor to build impactful use cases that can be industrialized with the latest technologies. This is a rare opportunity to put your signature on how Ford manufactures vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Conduct user research (interviews, surveys, contextual inquiries, on-site observations) with factory floor personnel, supervisors, maintenance teams, and other stakeholders to deeply understand their tasks, pain points, and needs.
- Develop user personas, journey maps, and workflow diagrams specific to manufacturing environments.
- Analyze complex industrial processes and data streams to identify opportunities for UI/UX improvements.
- Translate user needs and business requirements into intuitive and effective design solutions for various platforms, desktop applications, web dashboards, and mobile/tablet applications.
- Create wireframes, user flows, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups.
- Develop and maintain design systems, style guides, and UI component libraries tailored for industrial applications, considering factors like glanceability, use with gloves, varying lighting conditions, and information density.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, software engineers, hardware engineers, and subject matter experts throughout the design and development lifecycle.
- Clearly articulate design decisions, rationale, and user insights to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Advocate for the user and champion best practices in UI/UX design across the organization.
