Software Engineer - Vehicle Connectivity & mobility (VC&M) at Ford
Dearborn, MI
$74,300–$166,200from the description
Aug 6, 2026
Dearborn, MI
Nov 9, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role on Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design team focused on building and operating connected consumer and vehicle applications. The work centers on full-stack development using Java/Spring Boot and Angular/React, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and database management across relational and NoSQL systems. Suited to experienced engineers comfortable with microservices, TDD, and modern DevOps practices in a hybrid work environment.
Senior level · 6+ years · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 100 people in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 40–150
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 8, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The salary range ($74,300–$166,200) spans salary grades 6–8, which is unusually wide; the final grade depends on candidate experience. This range likely reflects multiple possible levels of hire.
Angular and React are both listed together under the required tech stack ('Angular, React'). They are treated here as interchangeable alternatives for the front-end requirement, since the posting names both without clearly requiring both simultaneously.
Swagger and Hoppscotch are listed together as API tooling; Swagger is captured as the primary named tool. Hoppscotch is omitted as it is a minor/less canonical alternative in this context.
GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Tekton are listed under the required 'Infrastructure & Delivery' section with a 'preferably' qualifier on the specific tools — the underlying capability (infrastructure-as-code, modern deployment frameworks) is a hard gate; the specific tools are captured as required per section placement, consistent with the 'or similar' rule.
GCP and Azure appear together under the required cloud platform requirement ('GCP, Azure, or similar'); GCP is listed as primary with Azure as an alternative.
SonarQube, Checkmarx, Dynatrace, and Jira appear only under the 'Even better, you may have' (preferred) section.
The role is hybrid, not fully remote — candidates near a Ford hub may be required onsite four or more days per week.
Visa sponsorship is explicitly not available; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.