Senior Compliance Engineer, Hardware

F5 Networks•Spokane, WA

14h

About The Position

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive. Position Summary The Sr. Compliance (Hardware) Engineer is responsible for working with external compliance vendors, as well as internal F5 engineering teams, to ensure that new, modified, or existing F5 hardware products conform to International Product Safety Standards, Physical Protection, and EMC/EMI Certification requirements. Responsibilities include collecting information, coordinating regulatory and internal F5 requirements implementation, testing of F5 products, and obtaining mandatory certifications. The candidate should be familiar with CISPR, CSA, IECEE CB Scheme, FCC, NEBS, and UL.

Requirements

Working knowledge of the agency standard requirements for IT and Telecom equipment.
General knowledge of analog and power electronics theory and practical designs.
Ability to read schematics.
Ability to pull BOMs from the Agile PLM system and maintain the critical component list for each product.
Ability to read and translate regulatory legislation as it pertains to F5 products
Ability to work cross-functionally with different teams and interface easily with other engineering disciplines.
Ability to work under pressure and multi-task effectively.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Team player, good interpersonal skills.
Self-starter, pro-active.
Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
Job may be performed on-site at a customer facility or data center, in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table, or at an off-site test laboratory.
Available for business travel, including off-site product testing.
Available to attend Compliance seminars and symposiums.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 6 years compliance experience or 12 years on-the-job progressive experience
Should be proficient with different certification and testing standards, such as CISPR, CSA, IECEE CB Scheme, FCC, NEBS, TUV, and UL.
Experience in electronics manufacturing or design and development engineering in the areas of product reliability testing, prediction and assessments, product safety, environmental and mechanical stress testing.
Familiar with the basics of the National Electric Code.
Familiar with reliability test plans and assessments as well as environmental testing.
Have hands-on experience in using DMM, AC source, power meter, soldering iron, oscilloscope as well as understanding electrical wiring diagram and or simple circuits.

Responsibilities

Assist in the coordination and performance of all activities relating to F5 Hardware Product Safety Compliance and Agency Approvals. This includes the preparation of schedules, reports, test procedures and test plans, as well as requesting quotations, purchase orders, and approving invoices.
Assist in the coordination and performance of all activities relating to NEBs Compliance testing for F5 Hardware Products. This includes requesting quotations and purchase orders, as well as preparation of schedules, reports, test procedures and test plans.
Establish / maintain relationships with testing vendors for compliance certifications.
Stay abreast of the latest standards, domestic and international, and inform management regarding the impact and action needed for product compliance.
Assist in the maintenance of a document repository that can be used by F5 employees to obtain product certifications for currently shipping products.
Assist in the creation and maintenance of the Critical Component lists in the Agile PLM tool to improve visibility of part changes that would impact regulatory compliance.
Assist in the creation and maintenance of power cord matrixes necessary for worldwide product shipments.
As a member of the product development team, review new designs up-front to ensure all requirements for the appropriate agency compliance and considerations are met.
Assist in the management of inventory required for certifications, including the planning and purchasing of production hardware, configuration and preparation needed for each specific certification, the current location of the purchased hardware, and the retirement of the hardware to the services group when the hardware is no longer needed or too old to support the certification process.
Participate in internal or outside testing for agency compliance of F5 products for safety, NEBS, or other regulatory standards.
Participate in the creation, development and maintenance of in-house test procedures, test plans and guidelines for product compliance in reference to the various and latest regulatory standards.
Initiate and/or coordinate root cause analysis on non-compliance relating to regulatory issues.
Work with Engineering on alternate part source evaluations.
Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
Performs other related duties as assigned.