Ford Motor Company

Supervisor-AI Specialist

Ford Motor Company • $115K — $218K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or PhD in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics or Computer Science
  • 6+ years of experience in quantitative risk analytics with at least 1 year in a leadership role
  • Expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for data warehousing and model deployment
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL for analytics and machine learning applications
  • Demonstrated success in collaborating with IT/Engineering teams for analytics productionization

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the analytics roadmap for auto loan originations
  • Champion responsible AI/ML adoption to enhance workflow
  • Foster a culture of scientific and business rigor
  • Establish best practices for model documentation and code review
  • Act as liaison to IT for designing data architecture required for risk analytics
  • Lead the optimization of risk models on modern platforms
  • Drive development of explainable AI frameworks for regulatory compliance

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and subsidized back-up child care
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Risk Analytics Supervisor in our Auto Loan Originations Risk function.
  • This is a dual-hat role requiring deep domain expertise in consumer auto credit risk and a robust technical command of modern AI/ML engineering and cloud ecosystems (specifically GCP).
  • You will be responsible for incorporating AI/ML in Risk Analytics, and acting as the critical bridge between the Analytics, Risk business unit and IT/Engineering.
  • Your primary responsibility is to architect, develop, and deploy next-generation AI-driven risk solutions directly into the our workflow, ensuring scalability, regulatory compliance, and measurable P&L impact.


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Help to define and execute the long-term analytics roadmap for auto loan originations, balancing predictive accuracy, business profitability, and regulatory constraints
  • Champion the adoption of responsible AI/ML to transform our workflow
  • Foster a culture of scientific rigor, intellectual curiosity, and business acumen
  • Establish best practices for code review, model documentation, and reproducible research
  • Act as the primary liaison to IT and Engineering to design the data architecture and MLOps infrastructure required for real-time risk analytics
  • Lead the optimization of risk models in modern platforms
  • Evaluate and integrate other AI development platforms where appropriate
  • Partner with IT for model deployment
  • Develop the end-to-end lifecycle of AI solutions, from prototyping novel algorithms to production deployment
  • Drive the development of explainable AI (XAI) frameworks to ensure model transparency for Fair Lending and regulatory audits
  • Leverage alternative data sources
  • Support rigorous model validation, back-testing, and stress-testing frameworks
  • Translate complex model outputs into clear strategic narratives for the upper management


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Master's or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Econometrics, or a highly quantitative field
  • 6+ years of progressive experience in quantitative risk analytics, with at least 1+ years in a leadership/people-management capacity specifically within auto lending or consumer finance
  • Cloud Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , including data warehousing (BigQuery) and model deployment (Vertex AI). Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) is a plus
  • Experience using AI tools to build solutions, e.g. AI tools for scorecard analytics, documentation intelligence, fraud detection.
  • IT Collaboration: Demonstrated success in working alongside IT/Engineering to productionize analytics, including experience with APIs, microservices, and containerization
  • Programming: Expert-level proficiency in Python (including pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow) and SQL


Even better, you may have...
  • MLOps: Strong understanding of the ML lifecycle, feature stores, model monitoring (drift detection), and automated retraining pipelines
  • Regulatory: Deep knowledge of fair lending regulations, ECOA, and model risk management guidelines
  • Experience deploying Generative AI (LLMs) for synthetic data generation or automated credit memo summarization


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 $115,500-$218,100.

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: New Hire Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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