Principal Engineer (Compliance)

• Work with contacts, with regulatory bodies, utilities, and customers, to identify and obtain the regulatory requirements that residential, commercial, utility scale for the following products:
• Photovoltaic (PV) Stand alone and Grid inverters,
• Charge controllers,
• Lead acid and Li-ion batteries,
• Panel boards,
• Communication and monitoring gateway devices with Wi-Fi and Blue tooth features.
• Fair knowledge on the regulatory/standards requirements in the following fields:
• Product Safety
• Utility interconnection (grid code) requirements for NAM & EU markets
• Efficiency
• EMI/EMC requirements
• RF Requirements related to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.
• Environmental compliance like REACH, RoHS, etc.
• Communicate requirements to Product Management and Product Development teams, per standard requirements and by assisting with writing of detailed Functional Specifications relevant to our products and systems.
• Shall be able to independently perform the analysis and interpret the standard requirements to support design teams. 
• Shall be independent and need to coordinate with various international certification agencies and external laboratories to get the necessary testing and certifications done in time. 
• Feed questions from technical staff back to internal and external contacts to obtain answers and refine our understanding and interpretation of requirements. 
• Monitor upcoming changes in requirements in key markets and analyze and communicate the changes and able to maintain a library of original source documents, translations, and briefs.

Qualifications - External

Primary Qualifications

• Experience & knowledge

   •    Distributed generation systems and utility interconnection •    Utility standards and practices relating to interconnection of electrical sources - protection, behavior under fault conditions, power quality, communications, and control, etc.   •    Professionals who are presently working on national and International standard committees are preferred. •    Experience working with regulations and safety standards preferably like UL 1741, IEC 60328, IEC 62109-1/ IEC 62109-2, UL 1998, UL 50E, UL 414, UL 67, UL 1973, IEC 62619, IEC 63056, etc. •    Grid code standards like IEEE 1547, IEEE 1547.1, VDE 4105, BDEW, etc.  •    The candidates must also have good knowledge in EMI/EMC standards both FCC-ISED and IEC/EN 61000 series of the standards applicable for various products for North America and EU markets.  •    Excellent communication skill in English is absolutely essential for the job.  •    Ability to source, translate, and analyze technical documents, identify relevant sections, and communicate requirements.

• Keys to Success

  Skills necessary for success are:
• Oral and written technical language skills.
• Good project planning abilities is essential
• Independently analysis of standard requirement with the design concepts 
• a strong aptitude for understanding and communicating technical requirements. 
• the ability to recognize and extract the relevant requirements from long complex documents. 
• attention to detail and thoroughness; information management.
• Excellent communication skill in English

• Qualifications - External

  Education & Experience
• Electrical/Electronic Engineering degree, preferably with a focus on power electronics and power systems.
• Experience with utility operations and practices.
• Sound knowledge about Product Safety and Grid Code compliance certifications for North America, Europe, Australia preferred.
• Experience of around 10+ years.