Junior Electronics Application Engineer – Compact Hydraulics & Mobile Electronics

Company Description

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 410,000 associates worldwide. The company generated sales of 78.5 billion euros in 2018. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT company, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, smart cities, connected mobility, and connected manufacturing. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, crossdomain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to create solutions for a connected life.

The special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant upfront investments in the safeguarding of its future.

Welcome to a place where your ideas lead to something big. Welcome to Bosch.

Bosch Rexroth Oil Control S.p.A. is a leading company within the Bosch Rexroth Group, specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of compact hydraulics, high-precision valves, integrated hydraulic blocks, and advanced electronic control solutions for mobile machinery and industrial applications.

Joining our team means working at the intersection of mechanical engineering, hydraulics, and state-of-the-art electronic controls, developing cutting-edge solutions for world-leading OEMs in an international, innovative, and collaborative environment.

Today you can be part of this world. We are looking for great talents and the next one could be YOU. 

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Job Description

What will you take care of?

As a Junior Electronics Application Engineer, you will join our technical team focused on Compact Hydraulics and Mobile Electronics applications. You will be actively supported by senior engineers through a structured onboarding path, bridging software, electronics, and hydraulics to deliver tailored electro-hydraulic solutions to our customers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Help shape the future: Contribute to the design, software development, integration, and testing of intelligent electro-hydraulic systems for mobile equipment and industrial machinery. Participate from initial concept definition to laboratory and field validation.
• Experience learning & continuous growth: Benefit from continuous hands-on training on electronics, hydraulics, commissioning, and control architectures. Progressively expand your competence across software design, testing, and vehicle diagnostics.
• Drive technical excellence & testing: Support laboratory and field test benches, SIL (Software-in-the-Loop), HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop), and vehicle integration (VIL). Assist in field data acquisition, system troubleshooting, and calibration using advanced bus and diagnostic tools.
• Experience cooperation: Collaborate closely with Application Engineers, R&D, Sales teams across Bosch Rexroth Oil Control, and our international competence centers in Germany and across the globe to share best practices and technical know-how.
• Take on responsibility: Gradually manage software versions and system requests for custom and standard products, contributing to technical specifications, documentation, and customer commissioning support.

Qualifications

What distinguishes you?

Education: Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer/Software Engineering, Industrial Automation, Mechatronics, or related engineering disciplines.

Experience level: Entry-level (recent graduate) up to 2 years of professional, thesis, or internship experience in software development, electronics, embedded systems, or industrial automation.

Software and programming skills: 

• Good academic knowledge or hands-on practice in C / C++ and/or CoDeSys (IEC 61131-3 standard). 
• Familiarity with MATLAB / Simulink for model-based design and simulation.

Electronics and Fieldbus Communication:

• Foundations of electronic control units (ECU), sensor/actuator interfacing, and digital/analog I/O.
• Understanding of CAN bus protocols (e.g., CAN 2.0B, J1939, CANopen). Exposure to tools such as Peak PCAN-Explorer, Vector CANalyzer, or ETAS INCA is considered a strong plus.

Soft skills and mindset:

• Analytical approach, structured problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Strong team-player attitude, curiosity, eagerness to learn, and proactive initiative.

Languages: Fluent in Italian and English (spoken and written). Knowledge of German is a welcome plus.

Mobility: Willingness to travel across Italy and abroad for customer support, field testing, commissioning, and technical workshops (typically around 15–25%).

Additional Information

Bosch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin or ancestry, age, disability or any other protected class