Senior Electrical Design Hardware Engineer, Humanoid Robotics

Schaeffler

Electrical Design Hardware Engineer innovating humanoid robotics and validating custom actuator controller hardware. Collaborating with experts to enhance skills and deliver transformative technologies.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeTroy • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Ruby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
4+ 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

embedded hardwarefunctional validationtest planscommunication protocolsEtherCATCANSPII2CUARTfault-injection tests

Soft Skills

technical communicationcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical skills