Lead Engineer – Secondary ECU releases (Artefacts & Binaries)

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 Lead Engineer – Secondary ECU Release Engineering, CI/CD Validation & Artifact Management to own end-to-end software delivery for distributed ECU systems in next-generation Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) platforms. This role spans build systems, binary generation, calibration artifacts, CI/CD validation, and vehicle-level release integration for secondary ECUs across zonal and centralized SDV architectures. You will ensure that every ECU software package—including firmware, calibration data, configuration artifacts, and diagnostics content—is correctly built, validated, versioned, and vehicle-ready. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in embedded release engineering, CI/CD-driven validation, calibration management, and automotive software lifecycle governance in complex EV/SDV environments.

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

• →Own the full lifecycle of secondary ECU software releases from source code to vehicle deployment.  
• →Coordinate multi-ECU release synchronization across body, energy, drive support, infotainment, connectivity, and gateway domains.  
• →Define ECU release baselines, versioning strategy, and software configuration management across SDV platforms.  
• →Ensure alignment between ECU software versions, calibration sets, vehicle configurations, and system-level dependencies.  
• →Own ECU build pipelines and binary generation workflows for embedded software systems.  
• →Ensure deterministic, reproducible builds across ECU variants, hardware revisions, and vehicle programs.  
• →Manage generation of ECU firmware binaries, bootloaders and application images, calibration datasets and parameter files, variant configuration artifacts, diagnostic and service packages  
• →Own artifact lifecycle management including storage, versioning, access control, and retention policies.  
• →Maintain full traceability across: 
  Source Code → Build → Binary → Calibration Set → Flash Package → Vehicle Deployment  
• →Manage artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory, Nexus, cloud-native storage systems).  
• →Enforce artifact integrity through hashing and checksum validation, digital signing and encryption, provenance and lineage tracking  
• →Validate calibration datasets against software version compatibility, ECU hardware variants, vehicle configurations 
• →Build automated release gates for Drive, Energy, Body, IID, ADAS systems ensuring software quality before deployment into production builds.  
• →Validate compatibility between vehicle software versions, manufacturing tooling, diagnostics, and plant infrastructure. 
• →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 

• To be considered for career opportunities at Scout Motors, applicants must be 18 years of age or older. 
• Residing in San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 
• Residing in Los Angeles: Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. 
• Residing in New York City: This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.

Scout Motors is committed to employing a diverse workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, or any other characteristics protected by law. Scout Motors is committed to compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact ScoutAccommodations@scoutmotors.com.