Senior AI Engineer at Ford
Dearborn, MI
$99,100–$166,200from the description
Aug 10, 2026
Dearborn, MI
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior AI Engineer role on Ford's FCSD Supply Chain analytics team, responsible for designing and deploying end-to-end data pipelines, machine learning models, and AI/GenAI solutions on Google Cloud Platform to optimize automotive parts supply chain and procurement operations. The role also involves building interactive Power BI dashboards and low-code Power Platform tools, and requires deep familiarity with FCSD supply chain datasets and processes.
Senior level · 5+ years · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10 people in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 3–15
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 $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 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role sits at the intersection of data science (ML/forecasting/statistics) and software engineering (pipeline/ETL development, AI agent building), making the SOC classification a genuine judgment call. Data science and quantitative modeling are the primary framing, with software engineering as the delivery mechanism — hence 15-2051 as primary, with 15-1252 as a close runner-up.
Domain expertise in Ford's FCSD supply chain processes and datasets is listed as a minimum requirement; this is an internal role and that knowledge is treated as a hard gate, though it cannot be represented as a named technology skill.
The Master's degree is listed as 'Highly Preferred' under the Preferred section, not as a hard requirement — the minimum stated is a Bachelor's degree.
Apache Airflow and Cloud Composer appear together as alternatives in the preferred section ('workflow orchestrators like Apache Airflow / GCP Cloud Composer'); both are listed separately but marked preferred.
The posting is hybrid (not fully remote); candidates near a Ford hub may be required onsite four or more days per week.
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