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Full Stack Software Engineer - AI Applications

Ford Motor Company
Posted 2 months ago, valid for 13 days
Location

Palo Alto, CA, US

Salary

$85,400 - $232,700 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • The job requires a candidate who is an agent orchestrator, focusing on managing agents rather than performing typist tasks.
  • Ideal candidates should have a strong understanding of fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • The role emphasizes high agency and a bias for action, with a focus on iterative development and problem-solving.
  • Candidates should possess first-principles thinking and the ability to question assumptions to create innovative solutions.
  • The position offers a competitive salary of $120,000 per year and requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering.

Who You Are

An agent orchestrator, not a typist. You don't want to be a faster keyboard. You want to be a manager of agents — handing off the heavy lifting, reviewing the output, and keeping your hands on the architecture. The IDE is a cockpit for orchestration, not a text editor.

Productively lazy. Your dream workflow: describe the requirement, let the agent build it, verify, ship, next. You automate anything a human shouldn't be doing twice. Your biggest bottleneck should be deciding what to build — while AI executes the how.

Fundamentals first. Data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, networking — you understand the machine, not just the library that wraps it. When a framework breaks, you fix it. When AI gives you the wrong answer, you catch it. Orchestrating agents only works if you can tell good output from garbage.

First-principles thinker with vision. You break problems to their core, question the assumptions, and rebuild. A software engineer's job is to architect solutions, not wrestle with syntax. You don't copy an architecture because "that's how it's done" — you ask why and decide if there's a better way.

High agency. You don't wait for perfect specs or permission. You find a path, propose it, and move. Large organizations have walls; you figure out which ones to go through, around, or remove — and you do it constructively.

Bias for action. Requirements will be messy and priorities will shift. You ship v1, learn, and iterate instead of living in design review.




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