Sr./Staff Compliance Engineer

The role

You will establish and own the compliance strategy for thermal battery design and scaling. You will influence codes and standards, build safety cases, and lead certification pathways with AHJs and NRTLs.

What you will do

• Own Antora's compliance strategy across product design, testing, and deployment
• Build the safety case and certification pathways
• Lead Antora's codes and standards advocacy with NFPA, ASME, ASHRAE, UL, and other bodies
• Inform project-level certification strategy until listing is in place
• Develop a long-term UL/NRTL certification strategy
• Build a comprehensive codes and standards database
• Recommend environmental design standards and their applicability
• Help write Antora's first company product safety and reliability policy

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent in mechanical, electrical, chemical, fire protection, or related engineering field
• 8+ years of experience in product compliance, certification, safety engineering, or codes and standards for energy, industrial, or high-hazard equipment
• Hands-on experience taking novel or first-of-a-kind equipment through certification and permitting
• Working fluency in the codes and standards governing energy storage and industrial energy facilities — e.g., NFPA 855/70 (NEC), UL 9540, ASME, IFC/IBC, ASCE 7
• Experience building safety cases and supporting hazard analyses and test programs (e.g., FMEA, HAZOP, fault tree analysis)
• AI-fluent: high level of comfort with leading AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)

Nice to have

• Active participation in standards development organizations (NFPA, ASME, ASHRAE, UL Standards & Engagement, IEC)
• Experience with thermal energy storage, battery energy storage, high-temperature systems, or pressure equipment
• Experience leading a product from field certification to NRTL listing for high-volume production
• Familiarity with state-by-state permitting, including the Midwest and Texas
• Familiarity with international codes and standards (e.g., IEC, EU, Australia)
• Experience writing or implementing company safety and reliability policies, risk acceptance criteria, or management-of-change processes (ISO 12100, IEC 61508, or similar)
• Hardware startup, new-industry, or first-of-a-kind deployment experience
• PE license or fire protection credentials

Benefits

• Equity compensation in the form of stock options
• Premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance
• 401K plan with employer contributions
• Flexible spending accounts
• Industry leading paid-time-off policy
• Flexible and inclusive holiday observance
• Paid volunteer time off

About the company

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Their thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power.