Bolds started work in 1955 as a physicist on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the Electronics Technology Laboratory, radar branch.

[11] She collected aircraft vibration data on the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Douglas C-133 Cargomaster,[7] using test flights to collect information about the vibration environments that exist around vehicles during normal flight conditions.

Bolds's spectral analysis of aircraft vibration and noise was called "substantial" and "instrumental" in suggesting ways to correct the adverse effects of the severe aeroacoustic environment created by operating high performance aircraft with their weapons bay doors open.

[14] In 1970 Bolds attended a symposium at the United States Air Force Academy where she was the only woman of 350 delegates.

[16] She worked for the United States Air Force for over thirty years, including fifteen years working on the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit "stealth" bomber,[1] and was celebrated by the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a Hidden Figure.

[7] In 2019, she was one of the honorees in the "Dayton Skyscrapers" exhibit, presented by the Victoria Theatre Association and Shango: Center for The Study of African-American Art and Culture.