Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Ford
Dearborn, MI
$99,600–$192,900from the description
Aug 9, 2026
Dearborn, MI
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Full Stack Software Engineer role on Ford's Manufacturing Production Scheduling PDO team, responsible for designing and delivering complex features for global plant-floor scheduling applications. The work centers on modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native microservices architectures, building CI/CD pipelines, and leveraging AI developer tools — all within a 24/7 critical production environment supporting vehicle manufacturing worldwide.
Senior level · 7+ years · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 75 people in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 30–110
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,635 (middle half $104,090–$156,640). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 11, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The compensation range ($99,600–$192,900/year) spans salary grades 7–8; final placement depends on candidate skills and experience.
The role is hybrid — candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub may be required onsite four or more days per week; it is not fully remote.
Visa sponsorship is explicitly unavailable; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
SFTP, SOAP, and XML are listed under the required qualifications as legacy integration experience, even though the role's goal is to migrate away from them.
GitHub Copilot is named in the required section as an example of Generative AI developer tools; the requirement is for proficiency with such tools generally, with Copilot as the named exemplar.
Cypress and Playwright appear under the 'Even better, you may have' (preferred) section as advanced testing frameworks.
OpenAI and Azure AI appear under the preferred section as examples of AI/ML APIs; internal FordLLM tools are also mentioned but are not a publicly named product.
CI/CD, Splunk, Dynatrace, jMeter, Cucumber, GitHub, Jenkins, and Jira appear in the responsibilities/narrative sections rather than the explicit required qualifications block.
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