Sr.Manager - Cross Cutting Integration

About the role

At Scout Motors, we’re a brand dedicated to innovation and excellence. Our Engineering team is at the forefront of this journey, blending bold ideas with meticulous execution to create vehicles that are as durable as they are innovative.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams/members responsible for Diagnostics, OTA (Over-the-Air updates), Vehicle Cybersecurity integration, testing, and release across EV platforms.
• Owning end-to-end system integration, validation, and production readiness for vehicle software in these domains.
• Ensure seamless integration across ECU diagnostics (UDS, DoIP), OTA update systems (multi-ECU orchestration, rollback, recovery), security layers (authentication, encryption, secure boot).
• Own validation strategy across SIL / HIL / vehicle-level testing.
• Ensure comprehensive coverage for OTA update workflows and failure handling, diagnostic functionality and fault management, security validation (penetration scenarios, secure update flows).
• Establish and enforce release quality gates and sign-off criteria.
• Oversee vehicle-side OTA integration and testing update orchestration across ECUs, failure recovery and no-brick guarantees.
• Align with backend/cloud OTA teams for end-to-end delivery.
• Ensure compliance with standards such as ISO 21434.
• Own software release readiness across diagnostics, OTA, and security domains.
• Ensure alignment with vehicle integration milestones, manufacturing (EOL diagnostics, flashing) and service and field support.
• Partner with embedded software and ECU, EE architecture and network integration, cloud/backend OTA, vehicle integration, validation, and manufacturing teams.
• Own system-level regression test planning, drive root cause analysis of cross-domain issues and help support integration war-room activities during DV/PV builds.
• Validate wake-up/sleep strategies across ECUs, ensure no unintended current draw or parasitic drain and correct power state transitions during vehicle power cycles, start/stop/sleep, OTA updates/events.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 12+ 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 environment, dSpace control desk and automation desk.
• Expertise with complex problem solving, data analysis, access/interpret/drive results with extended teams.
• Familiarity with SW 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.
• Knowledge of Automotive design and development process, system requirements, and general engineering best practices.

Skills

• Strong system-level thinking, technical arbitration capability.
• Structured problem solving.
• Program milestone ownership, ability to operate in high-pressure launch environments.
• Build and mentor new engineers & teams from ground-up.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans.
• 401(k) program with: An employer match and immediate vesting.
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 20 days planned PTO, as accrued 40 hours of 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 circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave.
• Corporate Vehicle Program with: Eligibility for 1 assigned vehicle A mobility stipend.

Pay

Initial base salary range = $190,000.00 - $230,000.00

Schedule

This role may be based out of the Scout Motors corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC. This role requires 4-5 days per week in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events.