DevOps Engineer – ADAS Platform

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a DevOps Engineer within the Ford ADAS DevOps Team, you will play a critical role in enabling scalable, reliable, and secure development pipelines that support ADAS vehicle software and tooling. This role has a strong emphasis on CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, large-scale C/C++ build systems (Bazel), and DevOps platform engineering to support safety‑critical ADAS development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Hands-on, production experience with GitHub Actions for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• 2+ years of experience with Docker-based containerization.
• 2+ years of experience with Linux fundamentals
• 2+ years of experience with scripting Python
• 2+ years of experience working with C and/or C++ codebases and build tooling.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across diverse engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for large mono-repos or multi-repo environments.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience supporting Bazel build systems in CI environments.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployments and operational patterns.
• Experience with build optimization techniques such as remote caching and parallelization in Bazel.
• Familiarity with backend services or APIs built in Python (FastAPI, Flask, or Django).
• Experience implementing CI/CD observability, metrics, and alerting.
• Experience operating workloads on public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Interest or familiarity with ADAS, embedded systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle software.
• Experience with self-hosted GitHub Actions runners.
• Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.
• Experience supporting ML or data-intensive CI workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms supporting ADAS software development.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize GitHub Actions workflows for C/C++, Python, and multi-language build pipelines.
• Support and improve Bazel-based build systems, including build performance, caching, and CI integration.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Build, maintain, and deploy Docker containers and support Kubernetes-based workloads.
• Partner with software engineers to integrate CI/CD best practices into C/C++ development workflows.
• Improve reliability and observability of CI/CD systems through monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional ADAS teams to remove DevOps, build, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Implement secure CI/CD practices including secrets management, artifact signing, and access controls.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level