Jobs · Project Management · North Carolina

Sr. Specialist – Security & FuSa. Integration

Scout Motors Inc. · Charlotte, NC · 2 wk ago
Project Management$140k–$170k/yrFull-time

What you’ll do

  • Integrate and validate vehicle cybersecurity mechanisms across distributed ECU architectures.
  • Perform security testing for secure boot, secure flashing, ECU authentication, secure diagnostics, vehicle communication security, OTA security validation.
  • Validate implementation of cybersecurity controls aligned with ISO/SAE 21434, UNECE R155/R156, OEM cybersecurity requirements.
  • Develop and execute penetration and vulnerability testing strategies for vehicle systems.
  • Support threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) activities.
  • Validate cryptographic services, key provisioning, certificate handling, and secure communication protocols.
  • Support integration and verification of functional safety requirements aligned with ISO 26262.
  • Validate safety-critical software and system behavior across ECU and vehicle-level integrations.
  • Execute and automate fault injection testing, safety mechanism validation, watchdog verification, diagnostic coverage analysis, fail-safe and fail-operational testing.
  • Verify safety requirements traceability and test coverage.
  • Collaborate with system safety, platform, and software teams during safety validation activities.
  • Design and execute edge-case scenarios power loss during flashing, ignition/arbitration cycles mid-update and reliability with network interruptions (packet loss, latency spikes).
  • Validate recovery strategies, rollback behavior, ECU reprogramming resilience to ensure no-brick behavior for safety-critical ECUs.
  • Design scalable regression test suites for consistent behavior across simulated and real-world environments across SIL, HIL and vehicle infrastructure.
  • Analyze large-scale CAN/Ethernet logs for intermittent failures, cross-ECU timing mismatches, system-level integration issues.

What you’ll bring

  • A 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.
  • Strong understanding of 1st principles in Engineering, result/solution oriented.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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