United States of America
Ford Motor Company builds and sells Ford and Lincoln trucks, SUVs, vans and cars, and it had about 169,000 employees worldwide at December 31, 2025. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, it reports four segments: Ford Blue for gas and hybrid models, Ford Model e for electric vehicles and software, Ford Pro for commercial customers, and Ford Credit for financing.
Ford builds gas, hybrid and electric vehicles under the Ford and Lincoln brands, from pickups and SUVs to commercial vans. It also sells connected services such as the BlueCruise driver-assistance system. Headquarters sit at One American Road in Dearborn, Michigan. At December 31, 2025, the company had about 169,000 employees, about 6,000 of them at Ford Credit. The remaining 163,000 split into about 87,000 in the US and about 76,000 elsewhere. On that date the company used over 409 operations facilities in 27 countries, including 42 manufacturing and assembly plants.
Ford Motor Company submitted 928 H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs) in calendar 2025, and 656 of them named Dearborn or Allen Park, Michigan as the worksite. By worksite, the 2025 filings break down like this:
Detroit is on the list because Ford names its Michigan Central Campus there.
The careers site also names Global Technology & Business Centers in Mexico and India. Its job search held 900 open postings on October 13, 2026, with 713 tagged to the United States, 66 to Mexico and 31 to Canada. The 2025 10-K adds a consolidated plant in Vietnam and joint-venture plants in Rayong, Thailand, in Türkiye and Romania through Ford Otosan, and in Nanchang, China through JMC.
Six titles reached 20 or more filings in calendar 2025: Software Engineer (71), Full Stack Data Engineer (50), Platform Software Engineer (42), Senior Software Engineer (31), Data Scientist (23) and Product Development Engineer (21). The 928 filings use 520 distinct titles, and the ten most frequent cover 279 of them.
Level shows up in Ford's own postings as a salary grade. A Dearborn Software Engineer posting live on October 13, 2026 places the role in salary grade 6 to 8 and asks for 5+ years of full-stack experience. A Senior Engineering Manager posting for eCommerce describes Engineering Managers who each lead 2 to 3 Scrum teams.
The 2025 10-K names four reportable segments. The former Ford Next segment was folded into them and Corporate Other from January 1, 2025.
Postings on October 13, 2026 clustered in PD Operations and Quality (306 of 900), Manufacturing (174) and Enterprise Technology (83).
Headcount slipped from about 171,000 at December 31, 2024 to about 169,000 a year later. The US figure held at about 87,000, while the rest of the world fell from about 78,000 to about 76,000. At December 31, 2025, about 56,300 US hourly employees were represented by the UAW.
LCA filings rose from 711 in calendar 2023 to 906 in 2024 and 928 in 2025. The 2025 10-K says Ford recruits from manufacturing, consulting and the technology industry to build skills in software, electrification and integrated services. Each employee's performance is reviewed twice a year.