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What started as an ambitious project of a 19-year-old in 2013 has grown into a global mobility platform used by more than 200 million customers and 4.5 million driver and courier partners across 50 countries.\nFrom ride-hailing and food delivery to scooters, e-bikes, and car-sharing, Bolt helps people move through cities every day. Small, autonomous teams drive this work, combining the speed and ownership of a startup with the scale of a global technology company backed by more than €1bn in funding.\nAnd we're just getting started.\nWhy join Bolt?\nBuild the future of mobility and help transform how people live and move in cities.\nTackle challenges at scale that span technology, operations, regulation, and growth.\nTake real ownership early. Small, lean teams mean your decisions matter from day one, and you'll learn fast alongside some of the best people in the industry.\nJoin one of Europe's leading technology companies, backed by world-class investors including Sequoia.\nAbout the role\nThe Senior Electronics Engineer takes Bolt's electronics from initial specification to mass production. The role owns the IoT and vehicle electronics hardware for our scooters and e-bikes end-to-end: architecture, schematics and PCB layout, prototyping, design verification, certification, new product introduction and support of mass production.\nThe engineer works as an individual contributor inside the Electronics Engineering team, takes technical direction from the Lead Electronics Engineer, and works closely with firmware, mechanical engineering, field application engineering, supply chain and local operations teams.\nMain tasks and responsibilities\nIncluding but not limited to:\nTranslate product and firmware requirements into component selection, block diagrams, schematics and multilayer PCB designs in Altium, including controlled-impedance stack-ups for RF and high-speed signals, keeping to cost and availability targets.\nPrepare designs for compliance and drive certification testing with external labs (CE/RED, EMC, FCC/ISED, UKCA, etc), including pre-compliance measurements and corrective design iterations.\nApply design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test principles; define production test strategy, test fixtures and system-in-loop procedures together with the firmware team and the manufacturing partner.\nLead root-cause analysis of field and production failures, and drive corrective actions through design or supplier changes.\nMaintain BOM cost, component lifecycle and second-source planning; handle cost-down and reliability improvement iterations.\nAct as the technical counterpart for electronics suppliers and contract manufacturers on component sourcing, quality issues and process questions.\nAbout you\nYou have 5+ years of hands-on embedded electronics design experience.\nExperience with radio and high-speed signals is a must: cellular (LTE, 5G), GNSS and BLE/Wi-Fi integration, antenna selection and placement, design with controlled impedances.\nYou have strong schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout and routing skills (Altium preferred), including designing with keeping signal integrity and manufacturability, testing in mind.\nYou have solid power electronics fundamentals: DC/DC converters, battery charging and protection, low-power design for battery-operated devices.\nYou have experience with embedded microcontrollers and peripherals, and common interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, CAN and USB; you’re comfortable debugging at the hardware/firmware boundary.\nYou have experience working with contract manufacturers and component suppliers: DFM/DFT, manufacturing data packages, production testing and first-article support.\nNice to haveExperience with connected vehicles, micromobility, automotive or other outdoor, vibration- and weather-exposed products (IP-rated enclosures, wide operational temperature ranges).\nExperience with motor controllers, battery management systems or CAN-based vehicle networks.\nExperience with displays, LED drivers, audio amplifiers, IMUs and sensor integration.\nFamiliarity with FCC/ISED (North America) and UKCA requirements in addition to CE.\nExperience with Altium 365 and formal hardware revision and release management.\nHave taken at least one product from concept to mass production.\nWhy you’ll love it here\nAccelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.\nEnjoy a rewarding salary and stock options, knowing that as Bolt succeeds, so do you.\nTake care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.\nCelebrate 5 years at Bolt with a 1-month paid sabbatical to recharge.\nConnect with colleagues at annual company events and smaller team gatherings.\nBalance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.\n5 additional personal days off in addition to base vacation days\nSome perks may differ depending on your location and role.\nAt Bolt, using AI daily is a baseline expectation for everyone. If there’s a faster, smarter way to do your work, we expect you to find it. You’re still responsible for the output, so the standard stays high when using AI tools.\nExperience matters, but so do judgement, ownership, drive, and integrity. If you’re excited about this role, apply—even if you don’t meet every requirement.\nEveryone is welcome\nBolt is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, nationality, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.\nWe welcome applications from all backgrounds and are happy to make reasonable accommodations throughout our hiring process. 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