Hardware Compliance Engineer

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Role Overview

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.

This role is a hybrid position – 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 four 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, including keeping up with ever‑changing regulations, supporting new product launches, new country homologation and performing a wide range of compliance tests.

• 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 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 from requesting the quote to pre‑testing hardware and system to meet regulatory requirements, arranging laboratory time, and certifying products at third‑party labs to obtain certifications and test reports.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure compliance schedules match the overall program schedule. Inform product leadership of potential risks and provide mitigation suggestions, facilitating debugging activities to meet certification milestones.
• Work with third‑party labs to obtain new certifications and renewal certificates, achieve compliance for Sonos products, and develop and implement compliance strategies for global market expansion (North America, EU, UK, LATAM, APAC).
• Work with CM/JDM to track certification status and meet overall program timelines.
• Perform compliance tests for safety (Hi‑Pot, Touch Current, Abnormal Single Fault), EME (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 results, evaluating testing data between different labs and correlating data to ensure compliance data are within acceptable tolerance and meet Sonos compliance specifications.
• Prepare regulatory documents and submit to regulatory agencies to resolve compliance issues, working with regulatory reviewers to adjust and provide sufficient technical information (antenna specification, theory of operation, critical component list, block diagrams, test reports, DoCs) to certified or notified bodies to move forward with the review process.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, with 5–8 years as a Compliance Engineer with broad background in product development and technical regulatory compliance.
• Strong presentation, written and oral communication skills, time management, project management, and organizational skills.
• Experience with risk mitigation management and assessments.
• Experience in documenting product compliance requirements extracted from industry safety, EMC and Wireless standards; experience with EMC design methodologies;
  Design for Safety and RF (WiFi, BT) certification in consumer electronics; experience with Environmental Compliance is desirable.
• Experience in assisting engineering change process and…