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Software Engineer

Job ID
71189
Category
Enterprise Technology
Location
Chennai, India
Work Type
Hybrid

You'll be a Full Stack Engineer who uses AI to build — and builds with AI. Two things at once: you ship real applications faster by treating LLMs as a team of junior developers you manage, and you build the AI use cases themselves — agents, RAG pipelines, LLM-powered products that work at scale. You'll work across the stack — cloud, backend, AI agents, frontend — and own what you build. We're building the Universal Electric Vehicle at Ford, doing things differently. 

What You'll Do
Orchestrate agents to build. Use AI as your default way of working — agents do the heavy lifting, you direct, review, and harden. You set the bar for how the team builds with AI.
Build the AI use cases. Design and ship AI-powered applications and agents — RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, agentic workflows. Understand what's happening under the hood and make it work in production, at scale.
Ship cloud-native systems on GCP. Design, deploy, operate. You own the architecture, the infrastructure-as-code, and the CI/CD pipeline. No throwing code over the wall.
Connect systems that don't want to be connected. Build the integration layer across enterprise SaaS platforms. Expect messy APIs, legacy constraints, and creative problem-solving.
Automate what shouldn't be manual. If a human repeats it, you write the code — or point an agent at it — to stop it.
Make other engineers faster. Build the tools, agent workflows, and guardrails that remove friction. Developer productivity is a multiplier.

  • Python — deep. You write production systems, not just scripts.
  • JavaScript / TypeScript — React, Node.js, or equivalent. A real frontend and a real API. Front-end strength is a big plus.
  • AI engineering — LLMs, embeddings, vector stores, RAG. Comfortable building agents and evaluation pipelines. Bonus for fine-tuning or eval work.
  • AI-assisted development — fluent with modern AI coding tools and agent workflows, and clear-eyed about where they help and where they don't.
  • GCP — Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Storage. Deployed and operated, not just tutorials.
  • Databases — relational and NoSQL. You know when to use what, and why.
  • APIs & microservices — designed and built RESTful services at scale.
  • Git, IaC & CI/CD — Terraform, Cloud Build, or equivalent. Reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure and disciplined code review.
  • BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. MS is a plus, not a substitute for shipping software.
  • 2+ years building and deploying full-stack applications in production.
  • 2+ years on cloud-native platforms (GCP preferred).
  • Demonstrable experience building AI agents or applications — show us what you've built, not what you've read.
  • What we do at Ford.

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