Senior Staff Product Compliance Engineer

The Product Compliance Engineer will be responsible for confirming that the robot system meets all applicable product compliance standards, regulations, and requirements to support commercial deployments in multiple international markets. As a key member of the product development team, the Product Compliance Engineer will promote a culture of product stewardship at the company and ensure that regulatory compliance requirements are captured and implemented during product development. This role will be either based fully on-site in our brand new state of the art facility Salem, Oregon or remote with frequent travel to Salem (one week per month).

About the Work:

• Understand, promote, represent, and translate product requirements pertaining to global EMC, safety, environmental standards and regulations applicable to mobile robot systems
• Safety standards (Low Voltage Directive(2014/35/EU), EN 60335-2-29, UL 1564, etc.)
• EMC / EMI and Radio transmissions (e.g. FCC Part B, EMC Directive 2014/30/EU, Radio equipment directive 2014/53/EU, etc.)
• Environmental regulations (RoHS, REACH, TSCA, etc.)
• Advise teams across the organization on product regulatory requirements to guide the development, production, and deployment of compliant products
• Driving the third-party agency product approval process including preliminary investigations with third party approval agencies, developing the product approval specifications and agency approval test plan, and coordinating preliminary, final and follow-up test plans and result evaluation of third-party agencies
• Prepare, compile, and maintain product compliance documentation.
• Maintain balance between the perfect technical solution, product compliance requirements and business risk
• Participation in relevant industry groups, on-going surveillance, and analysis of all pertinent domestic and international applicable regulations to ensure submission requirements world-wide are current
• Manage changes in new product development and sustaining engineering from a product compliance perspective

About You:

• BS in Mechanical, Electrical, Robotic Engineering, and/or at least an equivalent years’ relevant industry experience focused on product compliance
• Demonstrated expertise in product safety, EMC and environment regulations (e.g., RoHS and REACH)
• Experience distilling product compliance requirements from standards and regulations
• Experience supporting product compliance and certification programs including test planning & staging, hands-on support at external labs, agencies, customers, etc
• Ability to travel as necessary (~25% if remote, less than 10% if on-site in Salem)
• Authorization to work in the USA

Preferred to have:

• Advanced degrees with professional engineering experience
• Experience with a range of domestic and non-domestic product compliance requirements (e.g., Machinery Directive, Radio equipment directive, EMC, NFPA 79, Machine Safety, RoHS, REACH, Batteries/WEEE etc.)
• Experience working with Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories
• Five years of experience working with third party regulatory agency standards
• Demonstrated ability to own an assignment and see it through to completion