(Editor’s note: This post on Lucid Motors is part of Dispatches’ Tech Tuesday series. Dispatches covers business and tech because so many of our highly skilled expats are engineers and managers.)
The EV trade press has reported extensively on this: Lucid Motors, the U.S.-based manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, is expanding into Europe, with plans in the works for no fewer than 12 countries. And the key to this expansion is a significant hiring drive. There are currently 231 job openings at Lucid, but most are in the United States or Saudi Arabia. You can see them all here. (See Europe-based jobs below.)
Founded in 2007, Lucid Motors – then known as Atevia – specializes in high-end electric vehicles. To date, it offers two models: the Lucid Air, a spacious sedan touted as being capable of traveling 800 kilometers on a single charge; and the Lucid Gravity, an SUV able to carry up to seven people, named World Luxury Car of the Year 2026 by about 100 international journalists.
The company is also entering the mid-range market with a midsize platform comprising at least two models, the Earth and the Cosmos, which are expected to be unveiled toward the end of the year. Lucid’s high-end vehicles come with high-end price tags. In the Netherlands, the Gravity Touring starts at about 103,000 euros, while the Grand Touring begins at about 120,000 euros, about 10-percent higher than the top-end Tesla.
It is with this lineup that the Silicon Valley-based company – which has a factory in Arizona – plans to conquer new markets in Europe.
Here are those markets – and the job opportunities they create:
Germany
Note that Lucid Motors will not manufacture its cars in Europe – neither in Germany nor
elsewhere. The company, which is majority-owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, will manufacture vehicles destined for Europe in Saudi Arabia.
It will therefore not be hiring production staff, but will need sales and maintenance professionals, at the technician or engineer level.
Germany is currently where Lucid Motors is hiring the most, which is hardly surprising given the Germans’ reputation for loving big cars. Currently operating in four cities – Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Munich – where it has four “studios,” Lucid Motors plans to expand to at least eight more by the end of the year, including Baden-Baden and Stuttgart.
To sell its cars, Lucid Motors has chosen to partner with a retailer, the family-owned company Wackenhut, described as its primary European distribution partner.
Most-sought profiles: Primarily sales specialists and maintenance technicians. There currently are positions for a mobile service technician and a sales specialist open in Düsseldorf with requirements for B2 English.
Netherlands
Lucid Motors has been based in Amsterdam since 2021, when it chose the Netherlands as a springboard for its expansion into Europe. In addition to a showroom studio, the company has established its European Order Operations team here.
As in Germany, Lucid Motors is developing a hybrid sales model in the Netherlands, supported by strategic retail partnerships. Lawrence Hamilton, President of Lucid Motors Europe, recently mentioned his talks with Autovisie, “one of the leading Dutch automotive outlets,” but no official agreement has been announced so far.
Most-sought profiles: The Netherlands is currently the country where Lucid Motors is hiring the most, primarily marketing and sales support specialists (including CRM officers), legal professionals, and logistics/supply chain experts.
Current openings include Managing Counsel – EU Sales, Marketing and Financial Services and Business Analyst. There is also an opening for a manager, Service Supply Chain Operations Europe. Fluency in English is required and all positions are in Amsterdam.
Belgium
Lucid Motors is set to launch in Belgium this summer of 2026. Lucid reportedly has chosen the city of Zaventem, near Brussels Airport, for its Belgium HQ. However, hiring has not yet begun.
France
Lucid has chosen Toulouse – a city in the southwest of the country, known for its aerospace industry – and recruitment is beginning. Lucid’s subsidiary in the country, Lucid Motors S.A.S. France, is registered at 25 Chemin du Chapitre, 31100 Toulouse, in an industrial zone on the west side of the city, according to ElectricVehicle.com.
For now, the positions available are for IT engineers, who will help develop and test vehicle applications at Lucid’s software department.
Other countries
Lucid Motors is determined to sell its cars in the United Kingdom, but is waiting for the launch of its midsize vehicles before officially entering the market – so not before 2027.
• Norway and Switzerland: Both countries have had retail locations or showrooms since late 2022 (Geneva) and early 2023 (Oslo), but in Norway, no Lucid Motors vehicles were registered in the first quarter of 2026, and only three were registered in Switzerland in March. No hiring is currently underway.
• Six other countries are also expected to host Lucid Motors showrooms – Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Poland and Spain.
Ultimately, Lucid Motors has big plans for Europe – and oil supply challenges due to the Iran War could very well provide a strong case for its electric vehicles.
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Gaëlle Anne Fouéré
Gaëlle Anne Fouéré holds a Master's degree in journalism and has contributed to major outlets including Le Monde and the BBC website. Gaëlle later joined the United Nations system, where she worked with several agencies (WHO, UN Women, and peacekeeping missions), mainly producing both online and offline publications.
