Hardware Compliance Engineer

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you'll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

Some roles require an office while others may be done remotely. This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston, MA or Goleta, CA office locations and should expect to be in office a minimum of 4 days per week.

The Sonos Compliance Engineering team is tasked with the challenge of evaluating the compliance of our products. We are responsible for all new product designs and ongoing compliance of products in mass production. Challenges include: keeping up with ever changing regulations, supporting new product launches, new country homologation and performing a wide range of compliance tests. The compliance engineer is responsible for making sure that Sonos products meet all regulatory requirements.

The right candidate will have experience with communication, documentation and management of a variety of compliance tasks.

• Ensure Sonos' products meet all regulatory test requirements, such as safety (IEC 62368-1, IEC 62133), Energy Efficiency, Electronic Magnetic Compatibility (FCC part 15B, EN 301 489-1, EN , CISPR
  32) and Radio Frequency (FCC part 15C and E, EN 300 328, EN 301 893, SRRC Regulation No. 129, MIC certification).

• Act as part of the Compliance Engineering team responsible for all new product designs and ongoing compliance of products in production, including but not limited to, expanding the new frequency range for market access, maintaining current product design sustainability, and qualifying alternate sources for design performance and sustainability.

• Own regulatory compliance testing projects for Sonos from requesting the quote to pre-testing hardware and system to meet the regulatory requirements as well as arranging testing lab for chamber time and certifying products at the third party lab to obtain the certification and test reports.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance schedules match the overall program schedule. Inform the product leadership team with potential risk and provide mitigation suggestions to work with the team, facilitating the debugging activities to ensure the certification schedule meets the milestone.

• Work with third party labs to obtain new certifications and renewal certificates, achieve compliance for Sonos products, develop and implement compliance strategies for global market expansion (North America, EU, UK, LATAM, APAC...).

• Work with CM/JDM to track the certification status to meet the overall program timeline.

• Perform compliance tests for safety (Hi-Pot, Touch current, Abnormal single fault), Electronic Magnetic Compatibility (Radiated Emission, Conducted Emission, Telco Emission, Immunity) and Radio Frequency (DFS, Adaptivity, Rx blocking, Contention Based Protocol, carrier sense, Duty Cycle, PSD, Spurious Emission, Harmonic, Out-of-band) certification.

• Analyze test data and document the results, including evaluating testing data between different labs and correlating data to ensure compliance data are within the acceptable tolerance and meet sonos compliance specification.

• Prepare regulatory documents and submit to regulatory agencies to resolve compliance issues, including but not limited to, working with regulatory reviewers to adjust and provide sufficient technical information (antenna specification, theory of operation, critical component list, block diagrams, test reports and DoCs) to the certified body or notified body to move forward with the review process to obtain certificates on time.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, with 5~8 years as a Compliance Engineer with a broad background in product…