About the position
As Manager of Regulatory Compliance Engineering, you will lead a team of individual contributors and technical leads responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance across Amazon's growing portfolio of products. You will drive a culture of proactive compliance integration into product development from early concept through sustaining. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical guidance, requiring both visionary thinking and practical execution to ensure products meet or exceed regulatory requirements in all markets. A highly organized leader who is a strong communicator and influencer. You will have a strong understanding of the regulatory compliance scheme and the processes required to specify, test, qualify, document and maintain certifications related to EMI, EMC and RF compliance for domestic and international market while driving a standardized and harmonized approach to regulatory compliance. You will have strong compliance engineering and design fundamentals and be able to distill complex requirements and issues as necessary.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, manage and maintain a world-class Hardware Regulatory Compliance Team
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across engineering, product, and business teams
- Actively educate the engineering and business team on critical regulatory requirements for new and existing products
- Interpret, negotiate and help guide compliant design development and verify compliance through test and validation activities
- Provide strategic guidance to design teams regarding compliance and regulatory design requirements
- Drive standardization and harmonization of compliance approaches across product lines
- Work with certifying agencies and organizations to ensure new and existing designs comply with local, regional and national regulations
- Lead test plan and test data reviews
- Participate in design reviews and provide direction to product development teams on product regulatory compliance issues
- Work with 3rd party labs to test and validate Amazon products and support testing from a hardware and software perspective
- Review the compliance of project designs and documentation to ensure it meets or exceed all applicable regulating bodies minimum requirements
- Manage and track compliance metrics to ensure operational excellence and timely delivery
- Build robust process for continuous improvement of the workflow
- Continually review and update current internal standards to ensure compliance with certifying entities as specifications evolve
- Obtain compliance type approvals for all product lines to ensure entry into domestic and international locations and markets
- Attend and actively participate in cross-functional engineering meetings
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience managing a team
- 7+ years of compliance engineering experience, preferably in consumer electronics
- Experience with EMI/EMC regulation, testing and debugging methodology
- Prior hands-on experience with troubleshooting techniques related specifically to compliance issues
- Experience in documenting product requirements extracted from EMI/EMC and Wireless standards
- Experience certifying products to various international approval agency
- Prior experience with test and analysis methodologies and test equipment used for regulatory compliance tests
Nice-to-haves
- Master's or PhD degree in engineering or similar field
- EMC design, test, and mitigation experience
- Proven track record delivering high volume consumer electronic devices to multiple international markets
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Experience interacting with customers, regulatory agencies, test labs
- Ability to multitask in a high energy environment
- Experience dealing with ambiguity, changing direction, and being strategic and tactical as situations require
- Technical writing experience and ability to deliver presentation to executive
Benefits
- Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
