Senior Researcher Mechatronics (m/f/x)

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

At Hilti Entwicklungsgesellschaft (HEG) in Kaufering, our research and development teams turn industry leading ideas into real solutions. As one of Hilti’s core innovation centers, HEG focuses developing the products of tomorrow, we work on our products from the preliminary development of our construction chemicals, electronics, software, and engines to series production readiness, testing them in laboratories and on test fields. Working here means contributing to technologies that shape construction globally, supported by a culture built on precision, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

From the construction, simulation and design of the products, to the production of our own prototypes, to system testing and certification of our power tools - our innovation comes from our own research and development laboratories

Next-Gen Tools

The advanced mechatronics research team is responsible to develop proof-of-concepts for new products and services for the organization, leveraging diverse areas of expertise in the field of mechatronics, sensing, control, algorithms, actuators and machine learning for power tools. In this role you will contribute towards bringing innovation into the next generation of Hilti’s tool portfolio. Through cooperation with business units as well as academia, your ideas can bring customer value in the mid-long term.

Possibility to work less than 40 hrs./week (min. 32 hrs./week).

• Drive product and technology innovation by conducting research in controls engineering, state estimation, and systems engineering
• Develop new mechatronic systems through proof-of-concepts and functional prototypes
• Understand customer opportunities and pain points via application studies, jobsite visits, and collaboration with business units
• Participate in ideation activities to identify and evaluate technical solutions
• Contribute to R&D projects with national and international partners in academia and industry
• Influence Hilti’s technology roadmap and support the definition and development of future products

• Proven experience with advanced control theory, state estimation and systems thinking
• PhD or MSc in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Applied Mathematics/Physics, or related field.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in industry or academia
• Proficiency in embedded systems, electronics and prototyping beneficial, experience in machine learning beneficial
• Strong project management skills as well as excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Collaborative mindset, business acumen and curiosity
• Fluent in English; German language skills are an advantage