OBD Traceability Engineer, Sr Specialist

Scout Motors • Novi, MI

2d • Onsite

About The Position

At Scout Motors, you'll shape the future of the road by joining our Engineering team, where bold ideas meet rigorous execution. You will work with brilliant minds across disciplines to turn complex challenges into elegant, scalable solutions that meet the highest standards of safety, performance, and user experience. This role is instrumental in shaping the perception of Scout as a brand and gaining peer admiration in the automotive industry. You will own the end-to-end traceability strategy for OBD requirements across Scout’s software-defined vehicle architecture, from regulatory and concept definition through software implementation, integration, and validation closure. You will define, implement, and continuously improve a robust traceability framework connecting regulatory requirements, system requirements, software functions, diagnostics behavior, calibration elements, and validation artifacts. You will ensure all OBD-related requirements are complete, uniquely identified, properly allocated, internally consistent, and fully linked to upstream and downstream engineering deliverables. You will establish and govern traceability structures, link models, requirement hierarchies, and data standards within requirements management tools such as Jama, DOORS, or Polarion. You will provide senior technical leadership to ensure traceability is applied consistently across OBD system engineering, requirements engineering, software development, diagnostics, integration, and validation teams. You will drive resolution of missing, conflicting, or poorly allocated requirements, and identify structural gaps in the diagnostic concept before they impact program timing or compliance readiness. You will ensure full traceability coverage for key OBD elements including monitor definitions, enable conditions, fault detection logic, readiness behavior, MIL strategy, DTC handling, and diagnostic communication. You will link validation artifacts from HIL, SIL, MIL, and vehicle tests back to requirements to ensure complete verification coverage, objective evidence, and audit-ready documentation. You will support major program milestones, gateways, and software releases by delivering traceability status, coverage metrics, completeness assessments, and risk transparency to engineering leadership. You will act as a key contributor to internal and external compliance readiness, ensuring OBD requirements and associated validation evidence can be clearly demonstrated during assessments, reviews, and certification activities. You will partner with architecture and systems teams to ensure traceability is aligned with SDV principles, including modularization, abstraction, centralization, and platform re-use. You will drive continuous improvement of requirements and traceability processes, tool usage, linkage quality, and reporting transparency to raise engineering quality and execution maturity. You will support issue investigation by tracing defects, validation gaps, and unexpected diagnostic behavior back to requirement weaknesses, incorrect allocations, missing links, or incomplete verification coverage. You will ensure traceability remains robust and consistent across prototype, pre-production, and serial development phases, even as requirements evolve and software releases mature. You will mentor team members and help establish best practices for requirements quality, traceability discipline, and diagnostic systems maturity across the broader organization. You will contribute to other related tasks and activities required to support the successful delivery of Scout’s diagnostic and compliance objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering, Technology, IT Systems, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Controls, or Engineering Technology from an accredited college or university; preferably in Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in automotive diagnostics, systems engineering, requirements engineering, or requirements lifecycle management, with strong focus on traceability for complex vehicle systems
• Proven experience leading end-to-end traceability for sophisticated automotive systems, ideally in OBD diagnostics, emissions-related functions, powertrain controls, or software-defined vehicle architectures
• Deep understanding of OBDII regulations, diagnostic architectures, monitor strategies, readiness concepts, MIL behavior, DTC structures, and diagnostic communication, and how these translate into requirements, implementation, and validation artifacts
• Strong experience operating in a software-defined vehicle (SDV) environment, including requirements allocation and traceability across multiple domains, ECUs, software layers, and vehicle functions
• Advanced hands-on expertise with requirements and traceability tools such as Jama, DOORS, or Polarion, including setup of frameworks, linkage models, conventions, and reporting structures
• Demonstrated ability to define and institutionalize traceability methodologies, naming conventions, hierarchies, and data models across large-scale engineering programs
• Strong understanding of validation environments such as HIL, SIL, MIL, and vehicle-level testing, including mapping validation evidence and test results back to system and regulatory requirements
• Solid knowledge of UDS diagnostics, monitor definitions, DTC handling, fault memory behavior, and diagnostic communication interfaces
• Experience working across systems engineering, software, diagnostics, validation, architecture, integration, and compliance teams in a highly cross-functional and global environment
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset with the ability to identify gaps, inconsistencies, broken links, and missing coverage across requirements, implementation, and verification
• Ability to read and interpret Simulink models, software specifications, system architectures, interface definitions, and test documentation
• Strong ownership, structured communication, technical rigor, and the ability to drive alignment, transparency, and engineering discipline without direct authority
• Self-motivated senior engineer with a passion for bringing structure, completeness, auditability, and robustness to next-generation diagnostic systems

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end traceability strategy for OBD requirements across Scout’s software-defined vehicle architecture, from regulatory and concept definition through software implementation, integration, and validation closure
• Define, implement, and continuously improve a robust traceability framework that connects regulatory requirements, system requirements, software functions, diagnostics behavior, calibration elements, and validation artifacts
• Ensure all OBD-related requirements are complete, uniquely identified, properly allocated, internally consistent, and fully linked to upstream and downstream engineering deliverables
• Establish and govern traceability structures, link models, requirement hierarchies, and data standards within requirements management tools such as Jama, DOORS, or Polarion
• Provide senior technical leadership to ensure traceability is applied consistently across OBD system engineering, requirements engineering, software development, diagnostics, integration, and validation teams
• Drive resolution of missing, conflicting, or poorly allocated requirements, and identify structural gaps in the diagnostic concept before they impact program timing or compliance readiness
• Ensure full traceability coverage for key OBD elements including monitor definitions, enable conditions, fault detection logic, readiness behavior, MIL strategy, DTC handling, and diagnostic communication
• Link validation artifacts from HIL, SIL, MIL, and vehicle tests back to requirements to ensure complete verification coverage, objective evidence, and audit-ready documentation
• Support major program milestones, gateways, and software releases by delivering traceability status, coverage metrics, completeness assessments, and risk transparency to engineering leadership
• Act as a key contributor to internal and external compliance readiness, ensuring OBD requirements and associated validation evidence can be clearly demonstrated during assessments, reviews, and certification activities
• Partner with architecture and systems teams to ensure traceability is aligned with SDV principles, including modularization, abstraction, centralization, and platform re-use
• Drive continuous improvement of requirements and traceability processes, tool usage, linkage quality, and reporting transparency to raise engineering quality and execution maturity
• Support issue investigation by tracing defects, validation gaps, and unexpected diagnostic behavior back to requirement weaknesses, incorrect allocations, missing links, or incomplete verification coverage
• Ensure traceability remains robust and consistent across prototype, pre-production, and serial development phases, even as requirements evolve and software releases mature
• Mentor team members and help establish best practices for requirements quality, traceability discipline, and diagnostic systems maturity across the broader organization
• Contribute to other related tasks and activities required to support the successful delivery of Scout’s diagnostic and compliance objectives

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with: An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Pay Transparency

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior