OTA Planning and Strategy Engineer

🕒 February 11

🏢🏡 Dearborn – Hybrid

💵 $83.3k - $190.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

🔧 Hardware

👥 B2C

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $3G Post IPO debt on 2025-08

Transport • Hardware • B2C

Ford Motor Company is a global automotive manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets, and services a wide range of passenger cars, SUVs, trucks, commercial vehicles, and electrified vehicles. The company operates vehicle sales through dealer networks and direct digital channels, provides financing and insurance services (Ford Credit, Ford Insure), offers connected vehicle software and services (SYNC, Ford app, BlueCruise), and supplies parts, service, and fleet solutions through Ford Pro. Ford also invests in electrification, battery manufacturing, and sustainability initiatives while maintaining substantial manufacturing and R&D operations worldwide.

📋 Description

• Support Ford’s mission to redefine vehicle ownership by managing the technical infrastructure that makes software updates possible. • Be the primary architect of the workflows that bring the strategy to life. • Leverage advanced Jira automation and AI prompting techniques to ensure the OTA pipeline is fast, data-driven, and error-free.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. • 3+ years of professional experience in Jira automation and maintenance. You should have a deep understanding of Jira Service Management, advanced workflow transitions, and the Atlassian Marketplace ecosystem. • 3+ years of experience in program coordination, technical project management, or software operations (this is positioned as the "lower level" to the Lead's 7+ years). • Strong ability to organize and interpret complex data sets to support vehicle-specific software requirements. • Familiarity with vehicle software architectures or previous experience with Over-the-Air (OTA) update cycles. • 2+ years of professional experience in AI prompting and prompt engineering. You must be able to demonstrate how you use Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate text-based tasks or analyze data. • Experience with ScriptRunner for Jira or basic Python to further enhance automation capabilities. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical automation logic into clear processes for the broader product team.

🏖️ 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.