Staff/Senior Staff Compliance Engineer

The role

You will drive and manage the full product safety and compliance lifecycle across the product portfolio. You will lead compliance strategy from standards development through certification and market launch.

What you will do

• Research, interpret, and apply compliance from regulatory bodies to inform product listing.
• Partner with engineering, product and manufacturing to embed compliance into product architecture.
• Develop and execute compliance test plans and build test infrastructure.
• Debug failures and drive design solutions with engineering teams.
• Establish and manage partnerships with NRTLs to achieve certification.
• Define and maintain client test data acceptance programs with NRTLs.
• Manage business risk by monitoring evolving standards and engaging with AHJs and utilities.
• Represent the company in industry codes and standards development activities.
• Contribute to thought leadership through white papers and utility hearings.
• Mentor junior engineers and establish scalable compliance processes.

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent
• 7+ years’ experience in regulatory and compliance certification for solar, wind, battery or other power electronics products
• Deep understanding and familiarity with relevant UL/IEC/EN, IEEE, and ISO standards
• Experience with manufacturing processes and material selection for high-power assemblies
• Experience developing DFMEA, PFMEA and HARA for complex hardware design and manufacturing environment
• Experience of participating in product-relevant standards committees
• Development experience of cybersecurity program for utility connected equipment
• Functional safety requirements and procedures integration into Software and Firmware development
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity
• Capability to remain engaged, proactive, and positive under pressure
• Effective communicator and negotiator with excellent attention to detail
• Hands on experience designing and operating test equipment and data acquisition systems

Nice to have

• Familiarity with grid-tied hardware such as medium-voltage converters, switchgear, circuit breakers, or protective relays
• Experience designing or testing medium-voltage systems
• Hands-on experience with test automation using Python, LabVIEW, or embedded scripting
• Working experience of UL1741, UL 347a, IEC 62109-1, IEC 62109-2, IEC 62040, IEC 62477, UL 9540, UL 1998, UL 840, UL 2891, UL5500, IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800

Benefits

• Competitive compensation (salary and equity)
• Benefits

About the company

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. They aim to build better converters to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid.