Specialist, L1 Integration Testing

About Scout Motors

We're carrying forward the heritage of one of the most iconic American vehicles in history—a vehicle dating back to 1960 that forged the path for future generations of rugged SUVs and trucks. Scout is more than just a brand; it’s a legacy steeped in a culture of exploration, caretaking, and hard work. The Scout brand embodies respect: respect for the past and future by electrifying and digitizing an iconic American brand, respect for communities by creating a company that stands for its people and customers, and respect for both work and play with vehicles designed for campsites, job sites, and daily commutes.

At Scout Motors, we empower talented, inclusive, and entrepreneurial teams to innovate. Our Engineering team turns bold ideas into rigorous execution, building machines as durable and capable as the people who drive them. You'll collaborate with brilliant minds across disciplines, solving complex challenges with elegant, scalable solutions that meet the highest standards of safety, performance, and user experience. This is where your designs get built, driven, and remembered.

Responsibilities

• Own vehicle-level electrical and software integration, testing, execution, and release readiness across complete vehicle programs.
• Ensure all electrical and software systems deliver intended vehicle-level functional performance, focusing on vehicle bring-up, feature testing, timing performance, system robustness, drivability impact, and cross-domain interaction quality.
• Validate vehicle behavior under real-world conditions, including transient events, edge cases, environmental stress, and feature concurrency.
• Integrate all domain controllers and distributed ECUs into the vehicle E/E architecture.
• Own software integration and validation per vehicle software maturity, performance, and release gates; approve vehicle integration builds (per milestones).
• Ensure alignment to OEM-defined zonal or domain-based architectures.
• Validate network topology, gateway routing strategies, signal database integrity (DBC, ARXML), bandwidth utilization, and bus loading.
• Manage vehicle communication across CAN/CAN-FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet (100/1000BASE-T1), and FlexRay network frameworks.
• Validate and release bootloader compatibility, flashing strategy, partitioning strategy (AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive), memory, and CPU utilization budgets.
• Coordinate integration across Powertrain/Electrification (BMS, inverter, charging), Body & Comfort, ADAS/AD compute platforms, Infotainment & Connectivity, and Central Compute/Zonal Controllers.
• Validate system behavior against system requirement specifications (SRS) under nominal conditions, boundary conditions, fault injection scenarios, high bus load scenarios, low voltage, and cold crank conditions.
• Own vehicle-level regression test planning, drive root cause analysis of cross-domain issues, and support integration war-room activities during DV/PV builds.
• Release and validate functional KPIs such as defect leakage rate, integration maturity index, build stability metrics, bus load margins, and SW flash success rate.
• Validate wake-up/sleep strategies across ECUs to prevent unintended current draw or parasitic drain; ensure correct power state transitions during vehicle power cycles, start/stop/sleep, and OTA updates/events.
• Validate UDS/DoIP response timing, ensure diagnostic sessions do not degrade functional performance, and confirm DTC accuracy and freeze frame integrity and robustness.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 4+ years of experience.
• Strong understanding of vehicle E/E architecture and ECU-level software stacks, automotive communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet), UDS diagnostics (ISO 14229), and diagnostic communication tools.
• Expert knowledge of Jira, GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, and Artifactory/ALM/PLM.
• Proficiency in Siemens Polarion, IBM DOORS Next Gen, or PTC Windchill.
• Strong understanding, development, and verification of plant and control models in MATLAB/Simulink for execution in hardware-in-the-loop test environments, dSPACE Control Desk, and Automation Desk.
• Strong understanding of 1st principles in Engineering; result/solution-oriented.
• Familiarity with software for embedded systems, EE systems, and architecture.
• Familiarity with A2B, CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, LVDS communication protocols and vehicle network tools such as CANalyzer, CANoe, etc.
• Expertise in complex problem-solving, data analysis, and driving results with extended teams.
• Knowledge of automotive design and development processes, system requirements, and general engineering best practices.

Location & Travel

This role is based at Scout Motors' corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC, and requires 4-5 days per week in the office. Regular in-person meetings and events are expected. Applicants should be prepared to travel occasionally to participate in company events.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans.
• 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting.
• Generous Paid Time Off: 20 days planned PTO (as accrued), 40 hours unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders.
• Paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave.

Pay

This is a full-time, exempt position eligible for a base salary and participation in an annual performance bonus program. The initial base salary range is $110,000.00 - $135,000.00, determined based on skills and experience.