Requirements Senior Specialist

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. 

The Requirements Engineer / Requirements Management Specialist supports the end-to-end requirements management activities across projects and products. The role focuses on eliciting, documenting, structuring, maintaining, and assuring the quality of requirements in close collaboration with stakeholders, the Requirements Manager, and external partners. This is an individual contributor role with no direct people management responsibility. The role is part of the Requirements Management team and reports to the Requirements Manager. The Requirements Engineer works closely with internal development teams, quality functions, and external requirements service providers. 

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

• Requirements Elicitation & Clarification: Support and perform the elicitation of requirements from stakeholders through workshops, interviews, and document analysis. Clarify expectations, assumptions, and constraints to ensure shared understanding. 
• Requirements Definition & Documentation: Create and maintain clear, complete, consistent, and testable requirements according to defined templates, standards, and guidelines. 
• Requirements Structuring & Decomposition: Structure requirements according to the defined hierarchy and support decomposition from system-level down to subsystem or component level. 
• Requirements Tool Usage: Work within the defined requirements management tools and repositories. Ensure data quality, naming consistency, and correct versioning. 
• Traceability Management: Maintain bi-directional traceability between stakeholder needs, system and technical requirements, and verification artifacts. 
• Change & Configuration Support: Support change handling activities including impact analysis and updating requirements baselines in accordance with defined processes. 
• Quality Assurance of Requirements: Apply quality criteria and participate in reviews and audits. Identify inconsistencies, gaps, and quality issues and support corrective actions. 
• Collaboration & Communication: Collaborate closely with engineers, architects, testers, and external partners (VWG/ RVT) to ensure requirements are understood and correctly implemented. 
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the continuous improvement of requirements management methods, templates, tools, and best practices. Share lessons learned and support team-wide process maturity growth. 

Location & Travel Expectations: 

• This role may be based out of the Scout Motors corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC. 
• This role requires 4-5 days per week in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events. 
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.

We expect all Scout employees to have integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and strive to exhibit a positive attitude, as well as a growth mindset. You’ll be comfortable with change and flexible in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll take a collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals. Here's what else you'll bring: 

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or similar 
• 8+ years of experience in requirements engineering or related roles 
• Codebeamer knowledge is required and structured development processes 
• Strong analytical and structuring skills 
• Attention to detail and quality orientation 
• Good communication and collaboration skills 
• Willingness to learn and continuously improve

Preferred Qualifications

• Code Beamer , JAMA, Flow experience
• Automotive embedded software development lifecycle.  Domain experience in one of the domains: Body controllers, ADAS, Propulsion, Infotainment.
• Experience handling complex multi-domain system requirements and coordination cross-functional dependencies (Software, hardware, mechanical.) 
• Skilled in managing agile and v-model based projects in automotive software development
• Knowledge of regulatory and governing bodies legislation space is an advantage. 

The benefits of joining Scout include the chance to build products and a company from the ground up.  This is a chance to create something new and lasting – with an iconic brand at its foundation.  In addition, Scout provides competitive compensation and benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Program specifics are detailed in company policies and employee benefit guides, select highlights:

• 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

This is a full-time, exempt position eligible to receive a base salary and to participate in an annual performance bonus program. Final salary offered will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience. The annual performance bonus program is preset and not candidate dependent.

Initial base salary range = $120,000.00 - $145,000.00

Internal leveling code: IC8