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Products
People
Growth
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Jobs
Financials

How Scout Motors hires

Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
63 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
7%
Reposted roles
0%

Scout Motors scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 97 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 7% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 63 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 21

Visa details by country

Overview

Scout Motors is an American vehicle company established by Volkswagen in 2022 to revive the International Harvester Scout, the utility vehicle discontinued in 1980, as a line of electric trucks and sport utility vehicles. It is deliberately run at arm's length from its parent with its own engineering organisation, brand and dealer-free direct sales model, on the argument that a German group cannot build a credible American off-road brand through its existing structures. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, it is building a plant in Blythewood, South Carolina and has taken hundreds of thousands of reservations before delivering a vehicle.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Scout Motors over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
154
Postings analysed
234
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python13%
MATLAB8%
JavaScript8%
Java7%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js5%
GSAP3%
React Native2%
Angular2%
Databases
MySQL4%
PostgreSQL4%
Redis4%
Pinecone2%
Cloud & platforms
AWS12%
Azure11%
GitHub7%
GitLab6%
AI & ML
Claude2%
LLM2%
ChatGPT1%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$205k
Typical range
$113k – $298k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Senior 50%
Architect 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $113k $113k
Architect 1 $298k $298k
Highest paying role VP, Commercial Controlling $298k
Normalized to USD per year

Products

Blythewood Plant
The manufacturing facility under construction in South Carolina. Building a plant and a brand simultaneously is the central execution risk here, since neither can be properly tested until vehicles actually start shipping to customers.
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Direct Sales Model
Sales made directly to customers rather than through franchised dealers. American state franchise laws make this legally contested, and the company has faced litigation from dealer associations over it.
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Harvester Range Extender
A petrol generator option that charges the battery rather than driving the wheels directly. It answers the range anxiety that has limited electric truck adoption without abandoning the electric drivetrain, and it was added after reservation holders asked for it.
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Scout Terra
An electric pickup truck aimed squarely at the American full-size truck market. Trucks are the most profitable and most brand-loyal segment in the country, which is why every new entrant targets them despite the difficulty.
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Scout Traveler
An electric sport utility vehicle with an optional range-extending petrol generator. Offering the extender is a concession to buyers who tow or drive in areas where charging is sparse, and it was added after reservation feedback.
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
134
10 opened / 48 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
64 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
17%
Operations
14% ▲
DevOps
11% ▼
Product
8% ▼
Management
8% ▲
Backend
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added GitOps to stack Oct 2026
Added Backstage to stack Oct 2026
Added Talend to stack Oct 2026
Added Erwin to stack Oct 2026
Added Playwright to stack Oct 2026
Added Tool Use to stack Oct 2026
Added Multi-Agent Systems to stack Oct 2026
Added Semantic Search to stack Oct 2026
Added Semantic Search to stack Oct 2026
Added LlamaParse to stack Oct 2026
Added Anthropic to stack Oct 2026
Added Ruby on Rails to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
7
Hiring now
4
Countries
1
Busiest office
Charlotte
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Charlotte United States
HQ
Charlotte/Scout HQ
64 open roles 58 posted in 90 days 39% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $298k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Industrial Engineering, Operations
seen since Jan 2026 careers board, job postings
Fremont United States
Engineering / R&D
Fremont, CA
25 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 80% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Frontend, Mobile
seen since Jul 2025 careers board, job postings
Novi United States
Plant / site
Charlotte, NC
19 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 5% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, DevOps
seen since Feb 2026 careers board, job postings
Columbia United States
Plant / site
Blythewood, SC
13 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 15% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Management, Operations
seen since Nov 2025 careers board, job postings
Nashville United States
Regional office
Nashville, TN
careers board
Tysons United States
Regional office
Tysons, VA
careers board
Dallas United States
Regional office
Dallas, TX
careers board
Earlier presence
New York, United States 1 open roles · last posting Jul 2026

Jobs

≈ $101k – $198k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Charlotte • Fremont
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Go
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Anthropic
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Terraform
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Ansible
GitHub Actions
OpenTelemetry
VMWare
Chef
Crossplane
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CI/CD
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Configuration Management
Amazon EKS
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≈ $102k – $200k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Charlotte
Python
Go
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Crossplane
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Backstage
SLI/SLO/SLA
GitHub
Cybersecurity
theHarvester
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≈ $120k – $242k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Charlotte
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≈ $93k – $182k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Novi
theHarvester
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≈ $116k – $221k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • High School Diploma • Columbia • Charlotte
Python
Pinecone
AI/ML
Claude
LlamaIndex
MLFlow
AI Agents
LlamaParse
Open WebUI
LLM
Streamlit
Semantic Search
OpenAI
Anthropic
Semantic Search
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Terraform
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≈ $153k – $276k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Fremont
Copilot
Claude
ChatGPT
Cybersecurity
theHarvester
Management
Asana
Confluence
Smartsheet
Jira
Agile
Scrum
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≈ $110k – $208k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Charlotte
Databricks
Delta Lake
AI/ML
AutoGen
LangChain
LlamaIndex
MLFlow
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Streamlit
Hallucination
LLMOps
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
DevOps
CI/CD
Cybersecurity
theHarvester
Analytics
Power BI
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≈ $133k – $252k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Fremont
JavaScript
Node JS
GraphQL
GSAP
React.js
Mobile
React Native
Cybersecurity
theHarvester
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≈ $97k – $190k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Charlotte
theHarvester
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≈ $89k – $201k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Charlotte
GitHub
Cybersecurity
theHarvester
Management
Confluence
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≈ $148k – $267k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Fremont
theHarvester
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Scrum
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≈ $129k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Fremont
JavaScript
TypeScript
Vue.js
GraphQL
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React.js
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