- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- DetroitMichiganUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 9, 2026
- Salary
- $179,200–$268,800 a year
Senior Software Engineer - Deploy Infrastructure
Job description
Latitude AI ( lat.ai ) is building the future of Ford’s autonomy roadmap to make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone. Bringing this vision to scale, our fully in-house developed hands-free ADAS platform will debut on the all-new Ford Fathom in 2027.
When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – all dedicated to redefining the relationship between people and their vehicles for millions of customers.
As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at…
Job responsibilities
- Modernize deployment infrastructure - Replace legacy Ansible-based bootstrapping workflows with maintainable, testable tooling in Python and systems languages (Rust, C++)
- Build services for next-gen deployment tooling - Develop backend services that support our deployment systems, integrating with systems such as Artifactory and Jenkins
- Integrate with test infrastructure - Connect deployment systems with our hardware-in-the-loop integration test framework to ensure software updates are validated before reaching vehicles
- Enable other teams - Build tooling and automation that helps engineers across Latitude deploy software reliably, reducing friction and manual steps
- Collaborate across boundaries - Work with Security, Safety, and Embedded teams to ensure deployments are secure, robust, and meet automotive requirements
- Improve observability - Add monitoring, logging, and debugging capabilities to deployment pipelines so issues are caught early and diagnosed quickly
Job requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience (or Master's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience, or PhD)
- Strong proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, and service development
- Experience with at least one systems language (Rust, Go, C++, or similar)
- Familiarity with Linux systems administration and scripting (systemd, networking, package management)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or deployment automation (Ansible, Terraform, Salt, or similar)
- Comfortable working with CI/CD pipelines and release tooling
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug across system boundaries
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