Sr. Specialist – Secondary ECU CICD Releases & Builds

About the role

At Scout Motors, we are revolutionizing the electric pick-up truck and rugged SUV market. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of vehicle platforms by ensuring ECU software is reliably built, traceable, and deployable at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable build systems for secondary ECU software, ensuring deterministic and reproducible binary outputs.
• Own end-to-end binary generation pipelines, including compilation, linking, packaging, and versioning for embedded ECUs.
• Manage build configurations across multiple ECU variants, hardware revisions, and vehicle programs.
• Ensure correct generation of firmware images, bootloaders, application binaries, calibration files, and configuration artifacts.
• Optimize build performance, parallelization, caching strategies, and distributed build execution.
• Own artifact lifecycle management including storage, versioning, traceability, and retention policies.
• Manage software artifacts such as ECU firmware binaries, signed release packages, calibration datasets, configuration manifests, dependency graphs etc.
• Implement strict traceability between source code → build → artifact → vehicle release.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• Implement pipelines for cross-compilation of embedded software, static analysis and validation checks with automated test execution (unit, integration, HIL where applicable).
• Enable reproducible builds with traceability from commit → artifact → vehicle.
• Ensure secure and reliable delivery of artifacts to integration, vehicle builds, OTA systems and manufacturing pipelines.
• Develop tooling to generate custom ECU builds (feature flags, configuration variants, debug/release modes) and vehicle-level software packages (multi-ECU bundles) for on-demand builds for specific test or vehicle configurations.
• Cook up release schedules and resolve integration issues.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 10+ 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.
• Knowledge of Automotive design and development process, system requirements, and general engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 10+ years of experience.
• Experience with 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.
• Experience with ALM/PLM tools such as Siemens Polarion, IBM DOORS Next Gen, or PTC Windchill.
• Strong understanding of MATLAB/Simulink for execution in hardware in the loop test environment, dSpace control desk and automation desk.
• Expertise with complex problem solving, data analysis, and access/interpret/drive results with extended teams.
• Knowledge of Automotive design and development process, system requirements, and general engineering best practices.

Skills

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 10+ years of experience.
• Experience with 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.
• Experience with ALM/PLM tools such as Siemens Polarion, IBM DOORS Next Gen, or PTC Windchill.
• Strong understanding of MATLAB/Simulink for execution in hardware in the loop test environment, dSpace control desk and automation desk.
• Expertise with complex problem solving, data analysis, and access/interpret/drive results with extended teams.
• Knowledge of Automotive design and development process, system requirements, and general engineering best practices.

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. Program specifics are detailed in company policies and employee benefit guides, select highlights.

Pay

Initial base salary range = $140,000.00 - $170,000.00. Final salary offered will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience. The annual performance bonus program is preset and not candidate dependent.

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. Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.