Connected Vehicle Data Engineer at Ford
Dearborn, MI
$65,100–$166,200from the description
Jul 26, 2026
Dearborn, MI
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This hybrid role at Ford Motor Company sits within Product Development and focuses on applying machine learning and statistical modeling to connected vehicle powertrain data. The core work involves building and deploying ML models for anomaly detection, risk quantification, and component degradation prediction, alongside designing data pipelines and querying large-scale vehicle telemetry datasets. It suits a data scientist or ML engineer with a background in big data tooling and an interest in automotive engineering problems.
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 250 people in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 190–330
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 Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists four salary grade bands ($65,100–$109,300 through $99,100–$166,200); the offered comp min/max here spans the full possible range, as the final grade depends on candidate experience.
The 3+ years of experience requirement covers SQL, Python, and PySpark/Spark collectively as stated in the 'You'll have' section — the years demanded is applied to each of those skills accordingly.
BigQuery is called out prominently in the responsibilities narrative but does not appear under the hard-requirements section ('You'll have'), so it is treated as preferred.
All skills under 'Even better, you may have' are explicitly framed as preferred/nice-to-have and are marked accordingly.
Looker and Power BI are listed together as interchangeable dashboard tools under the 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 not available; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
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