Lead Engineer - ME Integration

Lead Engineer - ME 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 Lead Engineer – Manufacturing Integration & Release Testing to drive vehicle-side integration, manufacturing software deployment, and production validation activities for next-generation Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) platforms. This role combines manufacturing integration, release engineering, automated testing, and vehicle validation to ensure production-ready software and hardware releases across factory environments. The engineer will lead end-to-end workflows spanning ECU flashing, factory software provisioning, manufacturing release qualification, EOL testing, and vehicle-level validation.

The ideal candidate has strong expertise in automotive integration, manufacturing systems, embedded software validation, and automation within fast-paced engineering environments.

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

• Lead integration of vehicle software and ECU systems into manufacturing and production environments.
• Develop scalable workflows for ECU flashing, calibration deployment, secure software installation, VIN-based configuration, factory diagnostics
• Support integration across body ECUs, gateway systems, infotainment, ADAS/Autonomy modules, connectivity systems
• Develop and execute automated test strategies for manufacturing software releases, ECU firmware validation, factory release readiness, vehicle configuration verification, production regression testing, flash and rollback testing
• Build automated release gates ensuring software quality before deployment into production lines.
• Validate compatibility between vehicle software versions, manufacturing tooling, diagnostics, and plant infrastructure.
• Develop automation for ECU communication validation, network integrity checks, vehicle health diagnostics, firmware integrity validation
• Validation responsible for network topology, gateway routing strategies, signal database integrity (DBC, ARXML), bandwidth utilization and bus loading
• Validate and manage vehicle communication across CAN / CAN-FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet (100/1000
  
  BASE-T1), Flex Ray network framework
• Validate and release boot loader 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, Central Compute / Zonal Controllers
• Ensure feature-level integration synchronization, power mode management, Wake-up/sleep strategy robustness.
• 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.
• Leadership Competencies
  • Strong system-level thinking, technical arbitration capability
  • Structured problem solving
  • Program milestone ownership, ability to operate in high-pressure launch environments

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…