Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer
Core
Design and evolve Ford's data mesh architecture across manufacturing and enterprise domains, defining domain boundaries, data product contracts, and interoperability standards.
Role type
Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer (Data Mesh Strategy & Architecture)
Builds
Federated computational governance policies, data products, ingestion/transformation pipelines, and semantic layers for AI agents.
Domain
Automotive manufacturing / Data Engineering & Architecture
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Data mesh architecture, federated governance, cloud-native patterns, agentic AI/LLM orchestration, data modeling, semantic layers, data quality, schema design, pipeline orchestration
Preferred skills
GCP, Vertex AI, knowledge graphs, ontologies
Technologies
GCP, Vertex AI
Responsibilities
Design and evolve data mesh architecture; Establish federated computational governance policies; Champion adoption of next-generation technologies; Lead transformation of raw data into curated data products; Define and enforce data product standards; Oversee build-out of ingestion and publishing pipelines; Design and build semantic layers for AI agents; Design and develop data models; Partner with product teams to translate use cases into data requirements; Drive data quality initiatives.
