Sr. Electrical Design Hardware Engineer (Humanoid Robotics)

Schaeffler • Troy, MI

41d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401k eligible with up to 6% company match
• annual bonus
• merit-based salary increases
• Regular employee appreciation and company events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior