Schaeffler

Electrical Design Hardware Engineer – Humanoid Robotics

Schaeffler

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Troy • Missouri • United States

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Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails

About the role

  • Join our humanoid robotics team to innovate advanced robots, collaborate with experts, enhance your skills, and create transformative technologies that help shape the future of human-robot interaction.
  • Take charge of the bring-up and functional validation of custom actuator controller hardware.
  • Design and implement structured test plans covering power rails, sequencing, and communication protocols such as EtherCAT, CAN, SPI, I2C, and UART.
  • Conduct fault-injection tests including over-voltage, under-voltage, over-current, short-circuits, brownouts, resets, and miswired peripherals.
  • Analyze hardware behavior under varying input voltages, load conditions, and temperature ranges.
  • Build and maintain test fixtures, harnesses, and debug setups to facilitate thorough hardware evaluation.
  • Deliver detailed documentation of test outcomes and actionable recommendations to hardware and software teams.
  • Support EMI debugging efforts and pre-compliance testing as necessary.

Requirements

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 2+ years’ experience in embedded hardware bring-up, validation, and debugging of power, reset, clocking, and communication issues
  • Expertise in validating digital communication interfaces and analog signal paths with the ability to design margin, timing, and fault-related tests
  • Strong ability to differentiate between hardware, firmware, and interaction faults
  • Effective technical communication skills, both written and verbal, enabling clear collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams
  • Must have legal authorization to work in the US. (This role does not offer visa sponsorship or support.)
Benefits
  • Please see all our medical, dental, and vision insurance offerings at Schaeffler
  • Life insurance and 401k eligible with up to 6% company match
  • Eligible for annual bonus & merit-based salary increases
  • Regular employee appreciation and company events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
embedded hardwarefunctional validationtest planscommunication protocolsEtherCATCANSPII2CUARTfault-injection tests
Soft Skills
technical communicationcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical skills