Amperesand
Compliance Testing Engineer
Reno, Nevada, United States · Mid
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About the role
- Company Overview Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.
- Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth.
- Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources - including solar, gas, and batteries - at a massive scale.
Responsibilities
- Leadership: Build, manage, deliver high-integrity documentation, lab coordination, and standard interpretation throughout the development lifecycle.
- Shape how those standards are applied to our technology and advocate for interpretations that support innovation while preserving safety.
- Engagement with NRTLs: Own relationships with certifying bodies (TUV, UL, CSA, Intertek), lead negotiations on test requirements, coordinate test campaigns, and influence outcomes through proactive preparation and ongoing technical dialogue.
- Compliance Infrastructure: Create and own internal tools and processes for compliance tracking, certification documentation, product labeling, and pre-compliance validation. Drive automation where possible.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Product Management, Safety Engineering, Firmware, and Power Systems to ensure compliance is embedded across product definition, not bolted on later.
- Global Perspective: Prepare products for international certification including CE, UKCA, RoHS, and other country-specific requirements. Lead alignment on modular design reuse and regulatory harmonization.
- Standards Monitoring: Continuously monitor updates to key grid codes, safety standards, and environmental regulations. Lead Amperesand's internal readiness reviews and communicate impact.
- Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.
- Join us in building the power foundation of the future!
- As Compliance Testing Engineer, you will lead the compliance testing function at Amperesand, ensuring our products not only meet global regulatory requirements but do so with the most favorable interpretations and the least friction.
Requirements
- Standards Mastery: Expert knowledge of UL 1741-SB, IEEE 1547.1, IEC 60730, and familiarity with UL 1998, UL 508A, NEC 705/710/480/490, and IEC 61850.
- System-Level Perspective: Ability to connect regulatory needs with product architecture, firmware behavior, and field safety constraints.
- Strong understanding of inverter and PCS system design.
- Test Lab Authority: Demonstrated leadership in certification test preparation and execution. Deep experience negotiating technical positions with NRTLs and test agencies.
- System-Level Perspective: Ability to connect regulatory needs with product architecture, firmware behavior, and field safety constraints. Strong understanding of inverter and PCS system design.
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Benefits
- Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.
Company info
- We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption.
- Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
- With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
- Your mission is to ensure Amperesand is always one step ahead-never waiting for compliance, but defining it.
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