Job Ref: # 190280
Date Posted: 10/20/2025
City, State: Morrisville, North Carolina
Description
THE ROLE: The Senior Regulatory Compliance Engineer will develop and execute test strategies and plans for determining regulatory compliance of components, products, and systems. Products include Water, Gas, and Electric meters, Automatic Meter Infrastructure (AMI) smart points, in-home-displays, street-lighting, network communication cabinets and more. The candidate will also work closely with hardware, mechanical and firmware developers to ensure the full integration of quality products.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- A good understanding of the manufacturing process for new product development and the important role that regulatory compliance plays in that process.
- Understanding of EU/CE, UKCA, FCC, RED and other national and international standards necessary for meeting product to market compliance goals and interpretation of these standards for EMC/EMI, RED, and Wireless communications testing.
- Work closely with diverse Marketing and Research and Development teams to determine applicable country-specific industry standards and legal requirements for regulatory compliance of a wide variety of AC and DC powered electro-mechanical products and radio transceivers.
- Provide required regulatory compliance requirements for MRD/PRD documents as it pertains to the counties the product will be deployed in.
- Assignments may include performing radio / RF characterization, antenna pattern studies, Wireless communications testing, Carrier Network, PTCRB, EMC/EMI analysis and testing, participating in design analysis, and obtaining domestic and global product approval certifications.
- Internal and Third-Party Lab coordination and testing to achieve international product / system compliance.
- Create detailed product test plans that cover all aspects of the regulatory compliance test effort for the countries in which the product will be deployed.
- Perform testing, analyze test data, review third-party test results and author clear and comprehensive compliance test reports following internal testing efforts.
- Provide technical guidance on regulatory impacts and requirements during all phases of product life from requirements development to component and sub-assembly revisions of released products (including Engineering Change Notice review and approval).
- A collaborative team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS Degree (Electrical, Mechanical or similar Engineering) or equivalent (combination of associate’s degree / military training and relevant work experience).
- Senior Regulatory Compliance Engineer with 10 to 15 years of experience.
- Related (EMC/EMI) test set ups and verification work experience preferred.
- Senior level mitigation experience and knowledge for resolving non-compliance challenges.
- Experience utilizing test equipment (ex. Anechoic RF chambers, EFT/Surge equipment, Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Signal Generators and ESD equipment
PLUSES:
- Develop test solutions for a diverse product portfolio used in indoor and outdoor environments.
- Participation in FMEA of electrical and mechanical systems and board level troubleshooting.
- Develop subassembly/system level regulatory test plans (including sample size, test and measurement methodology).
- Enter test cases, test runs and resulting test defects into an end-to-end automated test tracking system.
- Product safety standards experience.
- Maintain detailed MS Project or Smartsheet schedules for regulatory test programs.
- Maintain and update industry standard libraries and product certification archives.
- Experience with application submission to Certification Bodies (TCB, NB, FCB, etc).
- Experience with Jira, confluence, and TestRail.
The estimated salary range for this position is $100 - $130k plus bonus.???Starting pay is dependent on multiple factors, such as skills, experience and work location, and is not typically at the top of the range.? At Xylem we offer a competitive compensation package with a generous benefit package, including Medical, Dental, Vision plans, 401(k) with company contribution, paid time off, paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement.
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