Sr. HW Regulatory Compliance Engineer, Hardware

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

22h • $157,900 - $213,600 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo, Ring, and Blink — icons of ambient computing reaching hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. What will you help us create?
The Hardware Safety & Compliance (HWSC) team is the critical bridge between bold hardware innovation and worldwide market access. We don't just check boxes — we embed compliance into the DNA of product design from Day 1, ensuring that hundreds of millions of devices meet the highest standards for electromagnetic compatibility, and radio frequency performance across countries.
We're looking for a Sr. HW Regulatory Compliance Engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical ambiguity and global regulatory strategy. Someone who doesn't wait for designs to land on their desk for review — but instead helps shape those designs from the earliest concept phases, turning regulatory complexity into competitive advantage. You will be experienced in Radio Frequency (RF) and ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and product certification processes. You will have familiarity with North American and Global standards and design for compliance requirements. You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative wireless products. You will contribute to org strategies that address evolving global wireless spectrum standards and requirements. Your role will include solving ambitious and complex compliance challenges through research, engagement with regulatory agencies, hands-on testing, debugging, and validation activities. You must be analytical, able to work effectively across multiple teams and have a strong ability to navigate the global regulatory compliance schemes to enable market access of consumer electronic products.

Requirements

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Communications Engineering, or experience with RF measurement equipment, including: power meters, spectrum analyzers, vector signal generators, network analyzers, oscilloscopes
• Experience in a consumer electronics lab environment

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Master's degree in Electrical/Communications Engineering, or 7+ years of wireless communications systems and implementation experience

Responsibilities

• Own compliance architecture for product programs end-to-end — embedding regulatory requirements into hardware design from the earliest concept phases through mass production certification
• Work closely with the product management team and design team by researching and specifying regulatory and industry compliance requirements
• Drive EMI/EMC and RF compliance by design, do hands-on testing and debugging — partnering with Electrical, Mechanical, and Wireless engineers to guide PCB layout, shielding strategies, and test configurations during early development
• Plan and direct compliance testing of hardware platforms, devices, and accessories with external 3rd party test labs, driving first-pass certification success
• Debug compliance failures at the root-cause level — understanding why at the circuit, layout, firmware, or mechanical design level, and driving the fix with engineering teams
• Navigate the global regulatory landscape across FCC, IC, CE, and international certification schemes — anticipating changes before they impact product timelines
• Perform detailed, independent research and literature reviews to yield actionable conclusions to ambiguous regulatory compliance issues — particularly where standards conflict or don't yet exist for novel technologies
• Deliver concise and informative compliance updates to leadership, translating complex regulatory matters into clear business impact and recommendations
• Work with manufacturing partners and labs to test and ensure all in-production devices remain compliant with all certifications
• Create mechanisms and best practices that prevent repeat compliance issues and improve certification efficiency across the device portfolio
• Mentor and develop compliance knowledge across the hardware organization

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior