Full Stack Senior Software Developer

In this position...

In this pivotal role, you will focus heavily on root cause resolution within the InVehicle Infotainment (IVI) domain, tracing failures that span across HMI layers, core infotainment services, and connected backend architectures. You will investigate critical issues using system logs, core dumps, and other diagnostic artifacts to trace problems that cannot be easily replicated on a test bench. As a technical leader, you will conduct exhaustive multi-project investigations, review structural designs to identify systemic risks, and directly analyze source code to reverse-engineer and fix critical platform constraints.

You will bridge diverse software layers, coordinate cross-functional engineering and validation teams, and permanently resolve complex, architectural level defects across the platform. This role also involves operating within modern, scaled SDLC and Agile/Scrum environments, contributing to structural architectural decisions, and driving software quality and maintainability.

The Ford organization is seeking a specialized Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, to serve as the definitive technical leader for system-wide stability and complex issue resolution within the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) domain. This high-impact individual contributor will drive deep technical triage, multi-repository root-cause analysis, and the resolution of complex, hard-to-reproduce software failures that occur intermittently in production environments.

What you'll do...

* Lead Complex System Investigations:
Direct the technical root-cause analysis, triage, isolation, and resolution of critical, hard-to-reproduce software failures and bug reports occurring intermittently in production environments.

* Deep-Dive Low-Level Diagnostics:
Master the investigation of system logs, core dumps, memory leaks, and corruptions to trace transient defects, multi-threaded bottlenecks, IPC deadlocks, and system crashes across compute-constrained ECU platforms.

* Target IVI & Back-End Triage:
Isolate complex software defects primarily originating within the IVI platform, tracing dependencies through microservices and external back-end APIs that interface with the vehicle.

* AI-Driven Diagnostics & Knowledge Training:
Utilize advanced AI tools, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to accelerate trace parsing, while documenting analytical approaches to train diagnostic models for improved automated insights.

* Vehicle Communication & Protocol Analysis:
Analyze vehicle bus communications using CAN, Ethernet, and other automotive protocols to isolate data mismatches, timing issues, and trace signal transmission across distributed ECUs.

* Diagnostic Tools & DTC Tracking:
Utilize specialized automotive diagnostic tools to read, interpret, and resolve Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTCs), tracking issues from electronic symptoms to specific source code line failures.

* In-Vehicle Validation & Testing:
Conduct direct vehicle-level validation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, and physical bench setups to verify software behavior, replicate production artifacts, and guarantee real-time reliability and performance on target embedded hardware.

* Manage Polyglot, Full-Stack Multi-Component Ecosystems:
Leverage broad technical mastery spanning high-level web frameworks (JavaScript/React HMI), backend services, databases, and low-level native embedded software (C/C++) to implement, optimize, navigate, and trace bugs across diverse repositories and subsystems.

* Source Code & Documentation Mastery:
Audit, optimize, implement, and maintain critical codebases for embedded platforms while authoring detailed technical documentation, architectural specifications, and long-term engineering blueprints.

* Modern SDLC & Technical Governance:
Operate within modern, scaled SDLC and Agile/Scrum environments to contribute to structural architectural decisions, review high-level designs (HLD), establish strict acceptance criteria, and drive software quality and maintainability.

* Feature Dependency & Lifecycle Management:
Define and manage complex feature dependencies, blockers, and risk registers across HMI, services, platform components, and validation to prevent software regressions across program life cycles.

* Cross-Functional & Cross-Cultural Alignment:
Act as the core technical lead for multi-project defect investigations, driving technical consensus across internal global teams, hardware engineering, validation, product owners, Tier-1 suppliers, and third-party OS providers (such as QNX).

* Team Mentorship & Quality Leadership:
Elevate overall engineering capabilities by leading comprehensive code reviews, establishing technical onboarding processes, mentoring other engineers, and conducting core technical interviews.

What you'll do...

* Lead Complex System Investigations:
Direct the technical root-cause analysis, triage, isolation, and resolution of critical, hard-to-reproduce software failures and bug reports occurring…