Sr. Specialist – OTA Integration

Sr. Specialist – OTA Integration

At Scout Motors, you don't just design vehicles- you shape the future of the road. Our Engineering team is where bold ideas meet rigorous execution, building machines that are as durable and capable as the people who drive them. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with brilliant minds across disciplines, turning complex challenges into elegant, scalable solutions that meet the highest standards of safety, performance, and user experience.

This is a place where your fingerprints are found on metal – where what you design gets built, driven, and remembered. If you're hungry to engineer something that matters, Scout Motors is where that ambition finds its highest gear.

We are seeking a highly technical engineer to lead integration testing and validation of OTA (Over-the-Air) update systems on the vehicle side. This role focuses on deep system-level validation across ECUs, bootloaders, diagnostics, and vehicle networks, ensuring OTA updates execute reliably under all real-world conditions. Candidate will work hands-on with vehicles, HIL systems, and embedded software to validate end-to-end update flows, failure recovery, and cross-ECU coordination, with ownership of technical validation and release sign-off.

This person will validate how all vehicle systems implement OTA robustly on the platform – directly shaping the reliability, scalability, and performance of the entire vehicle platform. Define and ensure OTA updates work flawlessly under real-world conditions preventing vehicle failures, enabling continuous software delivery, and protecting customer trust in software-defined EV platforms.

Become part of an iconic brand that is set to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by achieving the following:

• Execute and validate full OTA workflows, update trigger → package download → verification → flashing → ECU reboot → post-update validation
• Test across single ECU updates, multi-ECU coordinated updates along with delta and full-image updates
• Validate update sequencing and dependency management across ECUs
• Test OTA interactions with ECU bootloaders, flash drivers and memory partitions
• Validate A/B partitioning and rollback mechanisms, flash integrity and checksum validation
• Validate version management, compatibility checks and debug failures at firmware and memory level
• Perform OTA-related validation using UDS (ISO 14229) over CAN and DoIP
• Develop tools for OTA test orchestration, automated flashing and validation, log parsing and anomaly detection
• Validate diagnostic services during OTA request download / transfer data / transfer exit and ECU reset and session transitions
• Ensure correct DTC behavior during and after updates, debug protocol-level issues (timeouts, negative responses, sequence errors)
• 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
• Own vehicle-level regression test planning, drive root cause analysis of cross-domain issues and help support integration war-room activities during DV/PV builds.

Location & Travel Expectations:

• 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.

We expect all Scout employees to have integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and strive to exhibit a positive attitude, as well as a growth mindset. You'll be comfortable with change and flexible in a fast-paced, high-growth…