Job Description

Akkodis is seeking a Satellite Product Regulatory Compliance Engineer (SATCOM User Terminal) for a direct hire job with a client in Rockville, MD. You will be an integral part of the product development team and influence an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design company products. You will oversee and ensure company products are designed, tested, and certified to comply with worldwide regulatory requirements. You must have a deep working knowledge of RF / EMC compliance, enterprise/consumer electronics, wireless devices, and satcom technology. You must also have a strong understanding of regulatory compliance strategy, and the processes required to determine relevant compliance requirements to test, certify, and enable market access for company products. You will also work with engineering, operations, legal, licensing legal, and sustaining to ensure company products stay in compliance throughout their product lifetimes.

Rate Range: $105,000/year to $140,000/year. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Satellite Product Regulatory Compliance Engineer (SATCOM User Terminal) job responsibilities include:

• Review and evaluate new product designs, support engineering changes to existing designs, and evaluate legacy equipment against constantly evolving standards.
• Determine and interpret the relevant regulatory standards for company devices.
• Participate in mechanical and electrical design reviews to ensure EMC/EMI and RF (Ku/Wi-Fi/BT) mitigations are properly implemented in the designs.
• Actively educate the development teams on regulatory requirements and impact of key engineering decisions on compliance; help guide compliant design development and verify compliance through test debug and validation activities.
• Work with internal labs to pre-test and validate company products from a hardware and test software development perspective.
• Evaluate progress of tests for validity of test conditions, means of measurement and performance of components or equipment in relation to specifications or requirements of harmonized standards.
• Work with external labs to interpret the Product regulatory requirements, collect quotations, and finalize the certification testing plan for new products under development. Coordinate with external labs for pre-scan and certification testing, provide troubleshooting support and work with internal development teams to produce issue resolution as applicable.
• Review and document test results; take corrective action as needed. Analyze component failures; recommend alternate components or design changes.
• Over-see filing of official paperwork and final approval from the proper government or regulatory bodies (FCC/CE/TELEC/WPC) for WLAN, WAN and industry certifications.
• Responsible for determining regulatory artwork for labels as required by certification bodies.
• Stay up to date on any changes to global agency approvals and testing procedures of modules, subsystems, and User Terminals
• Proactive engagement with internal and external customer development teams
• Assist in focusing internal and external engineering efforts across the organization.
• Ensure delivered work meets technical, functional, performance, regulatory and business requirements.
• Support in-field test and validation of various User Terminals. Assist/Support field issues including travel to customer sites if needed.
• Manage and organize documents library, including specification requirements, design packages, meeting minutes, etc.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or similar technical discipline. Master’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering preferred.
• Five plus years of experience
• Experience with electronics design, safety, risk, and failure analysis
• RF Compliance background (Ka/WLAN/BT) wireless technologies with compliance testing, data interpretation experience.
• Experience in submissions for official licensing and certification through relevant compliance bodies such as US/FCC, Canada/ISED, EU/NB, and Japan/TELEC. Experience with multiple generations of FCC/CE/TELEC/ISED product regulatory approvals and license submissions preferred.
• Experience in documenting regulatory requirements extracted from Industry, Safety, EMC and Wireless standards.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with people in a variety of disciplines though all levels of an organization.
• Proven track record of role modeling a collaborative teamwork environment.

• Familiar with satellite communication theory preferred

• Satellite over-the-air Communication field-trial (Alpha and Beta) experience
• Experience with SharePoint, Confluence, and Jira.
• Expect up to 20% of travel depending on the phases of the projects

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Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, and a 401K plan.

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