Hardware Compliance Engineer, Product Compliance Engineering, GTPC

Amazon.com, Inc.
Arlington, VA, United States
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
$134,900.0 - $185,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Applicant Tracking Systems Data Centers Hardware Design Test Scripts

Job description

  • Own safety compliance strategy for new product introduction (NPI) and sustaining programs, identifying applicable requirements across global markets and driving execution from concept through certification.
  • Partner with hardware development teams during design reviews to proactively identify safety risks, recommend design modifications, and ensure first-time test pass rates.
  • Serve as the primary technical interface with Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTLs) and Notified Bodies, managing test plans, resolving findings, and securing timely approvals.
  • Dive deep into technical issues with ODM design partners - performing root cause analysis, defining corrective actions, and implementing preventative measures to avoid recurrence.
  • Build and maintain a scalable compliance framework including templates, checklists, and process documentation that enables the team to support AWS’s expanding hardware portfolio.
  • Develop and track metrics that provide visibility into certification pipeline health, cycle times, and risk areas - using data to prioritize improvement initiatives and communicate status to leadership.
  • Stay current on evolving global safety regulations and proactively assess impact to AWS’s product roadmap.

A day in the life

You will review test reports from an agency partner, identifying a non-conformance on a new low-voltage switchgear design and working with the ODM to develop a corrective action plan. You join a design review for a next-generation cooling system, flagging a potential Machinery Directive concern and proposing an alternative approach. You update your certification tracker and prepare a risk summary for your manager’s leadership review. You collaborate with a teammate on a new process template that will cut weeks off future program timelines.

About the team

AWS Global Trade and Product Compliance (GTPC) ensures that the infrastructure hardware powering AWS services meets all applicable regulatory and certification requirements across every country where AWS operates - and where we’re expanding next. Our Product Compliance Engineering team is the technical engine behind this mission, combining deep domain expertise with a builder’s mindset to deliver safe and compliant products at the speed and scale AWS demands.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
  • Experience understanding electrical and mechanical systems involved in critical data center operations including systems such as feeders, transformers, generators, switch gear, UPS systems, ATS units, PDU units, chillers, pumps, or air handling units
  • 4+ years of progressive experience in supporting NPI/NPD design related to product compliance
  • Experience with international certification, * Experience with the project management of technical projects
  • Master’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
  • Experience with National Electrical Code
  • Experience with functional safety principles
  • Experience with data centers AHJ permitting process.

Benefits & conditions

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

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About the company

Are you passionate about product safety and want to make a global impact? AWS Global Trade and Product Compliance (GTPC) is seeking a Sr. Compliance Engineer to lead safety engineering efforts across our rapidly expanding data center infrastructure.

In this role, you will own the end-to-end safety compliance lifecycle - from early-stage design engagement through final certification - for AWS hardware spanning artificial intelligence, machine learning, power distribution, and cooling systems deployed in data centers worldwide. You’ll serve as the technical authority on safety standards for control panels, low-voltage switchgear, and ICT equipment, partnering directly with product development teams, ODM design partners, test agencies, and legal stakeholders to deliver compliant products on tight timelines.

This is a high-visibility role where you’ll influence design decisions, drive first-time-pass test outcomes, and build scalable processes that keep pace with AWS’s growth. You’ll also bring complementary expertise in one or more compliance domains – EMC or Functional Safety.

If you thrive in ambiguity, love solving complex technical problems, and want to shape how the world’s largest cloud provider approaches product safety, we’d love to hear from you.

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