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Senior Safety and Compliance Engineer

Operations at Humane in San Francisco, CA

Who We Are

Humane is a team of proven industry experts who have invented, built, and shipped category-defining hardware and software products to billions of people across the globe. We're known for building the audacious, ambitious, and the impossible, and we're doing it again. Our vision for the next shift between humans and computing requires innovation across multiple emerging technologies in hardware and software, from devices to cloud services.

About The Role

As the Senior Safety and Compliance Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and managing compliance and safety deliverables for Humane’s products. This role is technical and requires someone with deep knowledge of consumer electronics safety certifications. You will champion “design for safety” principles within the development team, and will be accountable for creating and executing safety certification for our projects.

What You Might Do

  • Manage product compliance efforts from concept to production
  • Write and communicate compliance plans for new, cutting-edge products
  • Work with internal and external customers to test products to meet domestic and international regulatory requirements
  • Develop a compliance budget for all phases of product development and mass production
  • Review product designs early and provide “design for safety” input
  • Participate in product design reviews, advise development teams on certification requirements and markings early in the development process
  • Write test reports and develop a system to maintain and control all compliance and safety documentation
  • Collaborate with a talented team of cross-functional colleagues who are also experts in consumer electronics design, with backgrounds in mechanical and electrical engineering, optics, quality, manufacturing and more

Essential Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Environmental Science or a closely related engineering discipline; or equivalent industry experience
  • Strong knowledge of a broad set of electronics safety standards (ANSI, ISO, IEC, UL families of standards) 
  • Strong knowledge of UL/IEC/IEEE battery safety standards, and general understanding of pack design
  • Strong knowledge of EMC standards (IEC 61000 series, FCC Part 15, etc.)
  • Previous experience working, negotiating and interfacing with certification bodies (UL, CSA, TUV, etc.)
  • Experience managing environmental compliance programs
  • Strong technical knowledge and skills implementing and complying with REACH Regulation, WEEE Directive, RoHS I/II (III) Directive, Batteries Directive, etc.
  • Strong understanding of EU CE marking process, North American, and APAC environmental regulations

Why Humane?

  • Develop cutting edge technologies in a creative and innovative environment
  • Imagine new opportunities in areas that matter and will impact the world you live in
  • Be a part of a high performing team of the world’s best innovators and executors
  • Receive excellent medical, dental and vision benefits, equity ownership in Humane  and competitive salaries
  • Flexible work arrangements to support you in working in the way that you work best
  • Our values: trust truth +joy

Humane currently has a Mandatory Vaccination Policy in place for all individuals who enter any Humane space, subject to the exemptions as required by law. Please do not disclose vaccination status unless requested by our Health & Wellness Coordinator. Thank you. 

At Humane, diversity is important to us.

Humane is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws (“protected characteristics” or “protected categories”). Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and ordinances, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Humane, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.

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