AI Engineer at Ford
Dearborn, MI
$99,600–$192,900from the description
Aug 5, 2026
Dearborn, MI
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An AI/ML Engineer role at Ford Motor Company focused on building and deploying machine learning and generative AI solutions that improve customer experience, revenue, and operational efficiency. The position covers the full ML lifecycle — data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment — and operates within an agile team alongside product managers and other engineers. Suits a candidate with hands-on Python and AI/ML experience who can bridge data science and production engineering.
Mid level · 3+ years · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 95 people in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 55–140
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $105,602 (middle half $82,863–$137,683). 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 7, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title is 'AI Engineer' with no seniority modifier; the requirements gate on 3+ years of experience, which supports a Mid-level classification despite the wide salary band ($99,600–$192,900) that spans multiple grades (7–8).
Generative AI is explicitly called out as 'MUST HAVE' in the requirements section, so it is treated as a hard gate despite being a broad capability rather than a named tool.
TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn are listed together as examples of relevant libraries in the requirements section; TensorFlow is used as the primary skill with the others as alternatives since the posting treats them interchangeably.
'Cloud Platforms and AI Platforms' is stated as a requirement with no specific platform named; GCP appears separately under Preferred, so it is captured there as well.
Python, R, Spark, and SQL appear under the Preferred section as 'open-source data science technologies'; Python also appears in the Requirements section (3+ years), so it is marked required. R, Spark, and SQL are marked preferred.
The role is hybrid, not fully remote — candidates near a Ford hub may be required onsite four or more days per week.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects the meaningful software engineering component (model development, production code, MLOps), though the primary day-to-day work aligns more closely with data science.
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