Senior Electronics Engineer

The 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.

The 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.

• Translate 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.
• Prepare 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.
• Apply 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.
• Lead root-cause analysis of field and production failures, and drive corrective actions through design or supplier changes.
• Maintain BOM cost, component lifecycle and second-source planning; handle cost-down and reliability improvement iterations.
• Act as the technical counterpart for electronics suppliers and contract manufacturers on component sourcing, quality issues and process questions.

• You have 5+ years of hands-on embedded electronics design experience.
• Experience 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.
• You have strong schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout and routing skills (Altium preferred), including designing with keeping signal integrity and manufacturability, testing in mind.
• You have solid power electronics fundamentals: DC/DC converters, battery charging and protection, low-power design for battery-operated devices.
• You 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.
• You have experience working with contract manufacturers and component suppliers: DFM/DFT, manufacturing data packages, production testing and first-article support.

Nice to have

• Experience with connected vehicles, micromobility, automotive or other outdoor, vibration- and weather-exposed products (IP-rated enclosures, wide operational temperature ranges).
• Experience with motor controllers, battery management systems or CAN-based vehicle networks.
• Experience with displays, LED drivers, audio amplifiers, IMUs and sensor integration.
• Familiarity with FCC/ISED (North America) and UKCA requirements in addition to CE.
• Experience with Altium 365 and formal hardware revision and release management.
• Have taken at least one product from concept to mass production.

• Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
• Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock options, knowing that as Bolt succeeds, so do you.
• Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
• Celebrate 5 years at Bolt with a 1-month paid sabbatical to recharge.
• Connect with colleagues at annual company events and smaller team gatherings.
• Balance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.
• 5 additional personal days off in addition to base vacation days