Lead Engineer - Vehicle SW Package + SW Builds

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 – Vehicle Software Package Build & Compilation to own the creation, compilation, and packaging of complete vehicle software stacks for next-generation Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) platforms. This role focuses on building, compiling, and assembling full vehicle software packages from distributed ECU software deliveries, calibration sets, configuration manifests, and system dependencies. You will ensure that every vehicle software release is correctly compiled into a consistent, traceable, and flashable vehicle image for lab-car, HIL/SIL, integration, and production environments. Lead will operate at the core of SDV release engineering—transforming distributed ECU artifacts into a complete, validated vehicle software package. 

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

• →Own end-to-end vehicle software build and compilation pipelines for SDV platforms.  
• →Compile complete vehicle software packages from secondary ECU binaries, calibration artifacts and parameter sets, configuration manifests and feature flags, gateway and central compute software, diagnostics and service packages  
• →Generate fully integrated, flashable vehicle images for different vehicle variants and configurations.  
• →Ensure deterministic and reproducible vehicle builds across programs and hardware versions.  
• →Ensure correct bundling of ECU software, calibration data, and configuration definitions into unified vehicle releases.  
• →Manage packaging formats form vehicle flash images, OTA packages, lab-car and HIL/SIL deployment bundles  
• →Ensure package integrity, version consistency, and compatibility validation across components and support multi-variant packaging strategies across SDV platforms.  
• →Execute vehicle builds using manifest-driven compilation systems defining ECU inclusion and version mapping.  
• →Ensure manifests correctly resolve ECU software versions, calibration alignment, hardware dependencies, feature configuration rules  
• →Integrate vehicle build and compilation systems into CI/CD pipelines to automate triggering of vehicle builds from ECU delivery pipelines.  
• →Implement build validation gates for compilation success, artifact completeness, ECU compatibility  
• →Ensure vehicle software package consistency across multi-node distributed systems. 
• →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  
• →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.