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# Senior Hardware Testing Engineer - Robotics

- **Company:** RobCo GmbH
- **Location:** München, Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, EtherCAT, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), NumPy, Signal Processing, Systems Integration, TCP/IP, Hardware Testing, Pandas, Pytest
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5878761782

## About the Role

* Experience: 5+ years in system integration, test, or validation engineering within robotics, automotive, or aerospace.
 * Technical Fluency: Strong Python skills (pandas, numpy, pytest) for hardware automation and data/signal analysis.
 * Control Fundamentals: A solid grasp of servo loops, motor characterisation, and encoder behavior.
 * Industrial Protocols: Working knowledge of EtherCAT, CAN, and TCP/IP, alongside comfort reading electrical schematics and mechanical drawings.
 * Systems Thinker: The ability to mentally map how a control-loop tweak ripples through thermal, mechanical, and electrical behaviors.
 * Communication: Clear ability to convey technical risks to non-technical stakeholders without diluting the underlying reality.
 * Language: Very good English skills (German is a plus).

## Description

* Define the Standards: Act as the technical authority to decide exactly how we prove our hardware and controls work together at major milestones.
 * Cross-Layer Debugging: Tackle the toughest issues where mechanical backlash, electrical noise, and control-loop timing collide using tools like oscilloscopes and log parsers.
 * Stress & Margin Testing: Push the hardware into the corners of its envelope through thermal, vibration, and load-cycling campaigns to publish actual performance margins.
 * Negative & Fault Testing: Validate how the system behaves under fault conditions (e.g., sensor dropouts, power spikes) to ensure safe degradation and predictable recovery.
 * Traceability & Regression Tracking: Catch drift, wear, and slow regressions across firmware updates before they ever reach the field. Map field observations back to lab tests to continuously perfect our validation strategy.
 * Gatekeeper Role: Hold red-flag authority at gate reviews. You provide the data-backed confidence to green-light a release or halt it.


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