OBD Traceability Engineer, Sr Specialist

Scout Motors
Novi, MI
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

Join Scout Motors as an OBD Traceability Engineer, Sr Specialist to shape the future of transportation. You'll work with a talented team to innovate and design vehicles that are as durable and capable as the people who drive them. Your fingerprints will be found on metal, and what you design will get built, driven, and remembered.

What You Will Do

As an OBD Traceability Engineer, you'll own the end-to-end traceability strategy for OBD requirements across Scout's software-defined vehicle architecture. You'll define, implement, and continuously improve a robust traceability framework, ensuring all OBD-related requirements are complete, uniquely identified, and properly allocated.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You'll be 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'll also partner with architecture and systems teams to ensure traceability is aligned with SDV principles.

Requirements

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering, Technology, IT Systems, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Controls, or Engineering Technology
  • 8+ years of experience in automotive diagnostics, systems engineering, requirements engineering, or requirements lifecycle management
  • Proven experience leading end-to-end traceability for sophisticated automotive systems
  • Deep understanding of OBDII regulations, diagnostic architectures, monitor strategies, readiness concepts, MIL behavior, DTC structures, and diagnostic communication
  • Strong experience operating in a software-defined vehicle (SDV) environment
  • Advanced hands-on expertise with requirements and traceability tools such as Jama, DOORS, or Polarion
  • Demonstrated ability to define and institutionalize traceability methodologies, naming conventions, hierarchies, and data models across large-scale engineering programs

Benefits

  • Competitive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans
  • 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting
  • Generous Paid Time Off including 20 days planned PTO, 40 hours of unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays
  • 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
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