Systems Integration and Test Manager

Advanced Technology Platforms - Sight Systems Integration & Test Manager - LL6 

Shape the Future of Manufacturing with ATP

At Ford, we aren’t just building vehicles — we are redefining how the world moves. Within the Advanced Industrial Technology and Platforms (ATP) organization, we are the architects of Ford’s next industrial revolution.

Our mission is clear: we build and scale industrial platforms, technologies, and capabilities that unlock Ford Firsts to drive sustained competitive advantage in manufacturing. Driven by our vision to "build once, scale everywhere," we bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and global physical deployment.

Our guiding mantra is simple yet relentless: Scale what matters, win what's next.

If you are a high-tech builder, thinker, or innovator who thrives at the intersection of software, hardware, and massive scale, ATP is where you belong. Join us, and write the next chapter of industrial history.

In this position...

Advanced Industrial Technology and Platforms (ATP) is a new, centralized organization designed to position Ford to lead industrial innovation. This team will accelerate our digital evolution and manufacturing excellence - advancing the modernization of our Ford Manufacturing operations with cutting-edge technology. As part of Ford Manufacturing, ATP is designed to integrate directly into our manufacturing sites, partner across teams (GME, safety, etc.) and drive innovation from initial idea to full implementation. This new structure includes four vertical business units - focused on specific technology stacks - and four horizontals - shared services designed to ensure scale, deployment and operational consistency. As part of the AITP organization, the Sight Vertical is responsible for building an end-to-end business around AI/ML anomaly detection products, with image (Sight) and parametric data (Sense). This vertical transforms image and parametric data into actionable manufacturing intelligence through products like Sight.Scout (visual error proofing), Sight.Surface (defect detection), and Sight.IQ (assembly process monitoring). This transformation requires leaders who can compress readiness cycles, integrate next-generation platforms, and deliver breakthroughs that set new global standards in industrial AI/ML anomaly detection products.

Focus: Plant Deployment Leadership, Systems Integration & Test, Cross-Functional Delivery

Are you the leader who turns great Sight products into flawless plant deployments? As the Systems Integration and Test Manager for the Sight Vertical, you will own the end-to-end deployment of all Sight products (Sight.Scout, Sight.IQ, Sense.Machine, and future launches) into Ford manufacturing plants worldwide. You will embed with the product teams from early development to shape integration requirements, then translate that knowledge into airtight, "plug-and-play" plant readiness, testing, validation, and deployment plans. Your mission: make every Sight deployment predictable, repeatable, and "Build Once, Scale Everywhere" ready.

What you'll do...

Reporting to the Sight Vertical Lead, the Systems Integration and Test Manager is the connective tissue between Sight product development and the plant floor. You will lead and coach the Systems Integration Engineers, each responsible for specific product/plant deployments, while you own the overall integration strategy, standards, and governance across the full Sight portfolio.

• Embed with Product Teams: Partner with Sight Product Managers and Engineering from early development to understand product architecture, integration needs, and readiness requirements before plants are engaged.
• Own the Deployment Playbook: Build and maintain the standard process, tools, and documentation for plant integration readiness, resourcing, testing, and validation across all Sight products.
• Lead Plant Integration Readiness: Assess and prepare plants (network, hardware, line conditions, safety, IT/OT) for "plug-and-play" Sight deployments, resolving readiness gaps before Job 1.
• Plan & Resource Deployments: Build the deployment plan, timeline, and resource model for each rollout, coordinating internal engineers, plant teams, and third-party suppliers.
• Drive Testing & Validation: Define and lead the systems integration test strategy, validation protocols, and acceptance criteria that confirm each product performs to spec on the plant floor.
• Partner with Plant SPOCs & Customers: Work hand-in-hand with plant Advanced Innovation SPOCs and key plant customers to ensure smooth deployment, fast issue resolution, and high customer satisfaction.
• Orchestrate Cross-Functional Delivery: Lead and coordinate deployment activities across 3rd-party suppliers, TDM, GME, and Core Controls, ensuring every partner works to the right standards, processes, and robustness.
• Manage the SIE Team: Lead and coach Systems Integration Engineers who own execution of specific product deployments in specific plants, ensuring consistency and knowledge-sharing across sites.
• Champion Readiness Gates: Manage products through the TRL/MRL/IRL framework, ensuring every Sight solution reaches "Factory Ready" (MRL 9) status before scaling.
• Documentation & Standards: Own the integration and test documentation library, ensuring repeatable, auditable, and compliant deployment records across all plants.

What does success look like?

• Zero-Integration Deployment: Sight products are deployed into plants "plug-and-play," without custom site-level engineering rework.
• Cycle Time Reduction: Plant integration readiness cycles compress from months to weeks.
• Customer Satisfaction: Consistently high satisfaction scores from plant SPOCs and key customers post-deployment.
• Standardization: A single, repeatable deployment playbook adopted across all Sight product launches and plants.
• Partner Alignment: 3rd party suppliers, TDM, GME, and Core Controls consistently deliver to Sight's integration standards and timelines.
• Sight products achieve MRL 9 gates aligned to global program milestones.

What you'll do...

• Embed with Product Teams: Partner with Sight Product Managers and Engineering from early development to understand product architecture, integration needs, and readiness requirements before plants are engaged.
• Own the Deployment Playbook: Build and maintain the standard process, tools, and documentation for plant integration readiness, resourcing, testing, and validation across all Sight products.
• Lead Plant Integration Readiness: Assess and prepare plants (network, hardware, line conditions, safety, IT/OT) for "plug-and-play" Sight deployments, resolving readiness gaps before Job 1.
• Plan & Resource Deployments: Build the deployment plan, timeline, and resource model for each rollout, coordinating internal engineers, plant teams, and third-party suppliers.
• Drive Testing & Validation: Define and lead the systems integration test strategy, validation protocols, and acceptance criteria that confirm each product performs to spec on the plant floor.
• Partner with Plant SPOCs & Customers: Work hand-in-hand with plant Advanced Innovation SPOCs and key plant customers to ensure smooth deployment, fast issue resolution, and high customer satisfaction.
• Orchestrate Cross-Functional Delivery: Lead and coordinate deployment activities across 3rd-party suppliers, TDM, GME, and Core Controls, ensuring every partner works to the right standards, processes, and robustness.
• Manage the SIE Team: Lead and coach Systems Integration Engineers who own execution of specific product deployments in specific plants, ensuring consistency and knowledge-sharing across sites.
• Champion Readiness Gates: Manage products through the TRL/MRL/IRL framework, ensuring every Sight solution reaches "Factory Ready" (MRL 9) status before scaling.
• Documentation & Standards: Own the integration and test documentation library, ensuring repeatable, auditable, and compliant deployment records across all plants.

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical/Controls Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in systems integration, manufacturing engineering, or industrial deployment/test, including plant floor experience.
• Proven experience leading multi-site deployments of new technology/products into manufacturing environments.
• Strong understanding of plant integration requirements: network/IT-OT, controls, safety, line/process constraints.
• Experience managing cross-functional and multi-partner teams (internal engineering, suppliers, plant teams).
• Strong project management, resource planning, and risk management skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, comfortable working directly with plant leadership and customers.

Even better, you may have...

• Master's degree in Engineering or related technical field.
• Experience with AI/ML, computer vision, or industrial anomaly detection products.
• Familiarity with GME, TDM, Core Controls, or similar automotive manufacturing engineering functions.
• Knowledge of Ford-specific frameworks (FPS+, GDPS 2.0, MRL/TRL/IRL).
• Experience with Agile/SAFe delivery environments.
• Automotive or high-complexity manufacturing background.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• 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.
 

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.


For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. 

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