Jobs at Scout Motors Inc.

Leads the strategy, development, and scaling of Scout Motors’ EV technical training program. Manages trainers and curriculum developers, creates blended learning and certification programs, oversees training resources and LMS content, and measures effectiveness through assessments, learner data, and operational KPIs. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, service, and product teams to ensure technical accuracy and improve technician competency, certification speed, and service performance.

Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and platform services using AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and logging. Collaborate with development, security, QA, and product teams to deliver highly available and secure systems. Support on-premise environments, troubleshoot issues, coach engineers, evaluate managed cloud services, and participate in on-call responsibilities. The role is primarily office-based in Fremont or Charlotte with occasional travel.

Leads the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of sales, retail, order management, transportation, and order-to-delivery technology systems. Partners across Sales, Retail, Logistics, Finance, Digital Product, ERP, Data, and Engineering to define requirements, evaluate vendors, manage integrations, support S&OP, and deliver launch-ready systems aligned with architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.

Build and orchestrate AI automation workflows using n8n, LLMs, agentic frameworks, and MLflow. Develop intelligent agents, chatbots, semantic search systems, and AI dashboards using Python, Streamlit, OpenWebUI, vector databases, OpenAI, and Anthropic technologies. Integrate AI into business processes and data platforms while parsing documents and maintaining compliance, security, and ethical standards.

Leads end-to-end systems engineering for automotive infotainment and display functions, including requirements, architecture, integration, validation, traceability, and production delivery. Coordinates hardware, software, UX, suppliers, and cross-functional teams through vehicle development milestones. Owns functional roadmaps, system specifications, test methods, DFMEA, and ASPICE-aligned requirements processes. The role is primarily office-based in Charlotte or Novi and requires domestic and international travel as needed.

Lead planning, governance, and performance optimization for Scout Motors' U.S. and Canada retail network. Drive market analytics, location strategy, regulatory and licensing compliance, store standards, performance scorecards, and AI-enabled forecasting/reporting tools. Partner cross-functionally to evaluate market opportunities, build business cases, and improve retail effectiveness.

Monitor financial forecasts against targets for vehicle main systems, identify cost-reduction opportunities, evaluate business cases, and support cross-functional product-development decisions. The role manages financial reporting, scenario analysis, process improvements, controlling-system administration, and finance work packages while ensuring decisions meet development timing and cost constraints. It serves as a liaison with VW AG IT administration and supports strategic analyses.

Leads the whole-vehicle attributes and sciences organization, integrating vehicle systems, physics-based simulation, validation, verification, and prototype testing. Oversees analysis of vehicle performance, energy consumption, aerodynamics, safety, and regulatory compliance. Develops high-fidelity models, guides design reviews, and collaborates with vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics, powertrain, body, and interior teams. Builds and manages a high-performing technical team while coordinating multiple vehicle development priorities.

Coordinates integration and delivery across automotive body systems, including BIW, underbody structures, doors, closures, and structural components. Supports the Main System Lead by aligning engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders, monitoring milestones, risks, sourcing, cost, quality, and timing, and preparing decision-ready governance materials. Facilitates issue resolution, escalation, action tracking, status reporting, and leadership communications throughout vehicle development and launch.

Supports the Main System Lead in integrating exterior and interior body systems across engineering teams and business functions. The role coordinates technical deliverables, milestones, sourcing, costs, quality, risks, governance reviews, decisions, and issue resolution. It consolidates status reporting, drives readiness and accountability, and facilitates cross-functional alignment through vehicle development and launch. The position is primarily based in Charlotte or Novi and requires frequent office presence plus travel to suppliers, manufacturing, and testing facilities.

Supports multinational tax operations, including international tax compliance, transfer pricing, VAT/GST, customs-related tax matters, tax planning, and ASC 740/IAS 12 tax accounting. Coordinates external advisors, prepares documentation and returns, analyzes cross-border transactions, supports audits and tax provisions, and partners with Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Customs, Treasury, and Legal teams.

Owns enterprise EHS training programs and serves as the high-voltage safety subject matter expert and committee chair. Develops and delivers training covering EV systems, electrical safety, LOTO, PPE, hazard communication, emergency response, and contractor safety. Maintains training records, authorization programs, qualification matrices, and safe work procedures; supports risk assessments, incident investigations, audits, and regulatory compliance. Partners across engineering, production, HR, and operations while traveling frequently to Scout locations.

Leads business operations, financial planning, workforce planning, vendor spending, and cross-functional program delivery across charging, connectivity, cloud, fleet, and software services. Oversees project planning, prioritization, commercialization, launch readiness, marketing programs, training, and communications. Partners with Finance, Product, Engineering, Procurement, Legal, Sales, and Customer Experience teams to deliver automotive software products on time and within budget.

Manage treasury operations including daily cash reconciliation, liquidity forecasting, FX exposure, payments, bank account administration, charge card governance, treasury controls, audits, and SAP treasury workstation support. Partner with banking, IT, legal, accounting, and Volkswagen Group teams on payments, ISDA documentation, hedge accounting, and system enhancements. Prepare liquidity reporting and provide treasury expertise to senior finance leadership.

Build and orchestrate AI automation workflows using n8n, LLMs, agentic frameworks, and MLflow. Develop intelligent agents, chatbots, semantic retrieval systems, and AI dashboards with Streamlit, OpenWebUI, Pinecone, OpenAI, and Anthropic technologies. Integrate AI into business processes and data platforms, extract structured document data, and ensure compliance, security, and ethical standards. The role is primarily office-based in Charlotte, NC, with occasional travel.

Build and maintain a secure, scalable cloud data platform using infrastructure as code, data integration, ETL/ELT pipelines, enterprise data models, and governance standards. Develop BI dashboards, machine learning models, monitoring solutions, and high-availability infrastructure. Collaborate with software, systems, security, product, and business teams to deliver reliable data systems and actionable insights.

Build and orchestrate AI automation workflows using n8n, LLMs, and agentic frameworks. Develop intelligent agents, chatbots, assistants, ML model automation, semantic search systems, and AI dashboards. Integrate AI tools with business processes and data platforms using Streamlit, OpenWebUI, LlamaParse, vector databases, OpenAI, and Anthropic technologies. Ensure solutions meet compliance, security, and ethical standards while collaborating across teams.

Leads system and subsystem integration for software-defined vehicle platforms, coordinating vehicle architecture, ECU readiness, software releases, validation, diagnostics, and lab-car activities. Owns Agile execution, issue triage, change control, release schedules, test readiness, dashboards, KPIs, and executive reporting. Partners across software, systems, validation, manufacturing, diagnostics, and vehicle engineering teams to achieve stable releases and launch readiness.

Leads purchasing project steering and control for new vehicle programs from early planning through production launch. Coordinates sourcing, supplier readiness, cost targets, tooling investment, budgets, localization, contracts, milestone tracking, and parts availability. Partners with Purchasing, R&D, Finance, Logistics, Quality, Operations, suppliers, and executive stakeholders to resolve issues, report program status, and ensure timely project deliverables. The role is based in Charlotte or Novi, requires 4–5 office days weekly, and includes up to 30% domestic and international travel.

Leads the strategy, development, and operational rollout of digital workshop and mobile service products. Owns product vision, integrations, APIs, workflows, scheduling logic, data synchronization, system reliability, and vendor relationships. Partners with Retail Operations, IT, Engineering, and Technical Service to build scalable service platforms for Scout’s direct-to-consumer network. Defines operational KPIs, monitors system health, manages technical risks, and drives continuous improvement across pre-launch and production environments.