Senior Compliance Engineer, AWS Product Compliance Engineering

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Senior Compliance Engineer Environmental to drive global product compliance for hazardous substances (including PFAS/REACH) energy efficiency and emerging chemical regulations across all AWS markets including hardware supporting AI/ML infrastructure. This role sits within the Global Trade and Product Compliance (GTPC) organization and partners cross-functionally with Hardware Engineering Supply Chain Legal Public Policy and Sustainability to ensure AWS infrastructure meets regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle from early design through production and end-of-life.

Primary Duties
- Implement AWSs material and product compliance strategy roadmap and specification in the area of hazardous substances to meet business objectives such as new product launch new material qualification new site launch new technology development and onboarding new ODMs
- Work closely with product compliance TPMs and hardware design teams throughout the product life cycle in order to obtain required product environmental regulatory compliance documentation by: specifying regulatory and technical standards requirements; conducting specification/design reviews; managing pre-testing of hardware platforms developed by the design team; and supporting the team through product execution.
- Drive regulatory advocacy priority through in-depth product and impact assessment to enable effective engagement with EU and global trade associations (e.g. DigitalEurope SEMI ITI) to influence emerging chemical restrictions secure derogations and advance Amazons positions in public consultations and technical working groups
- Create procedures and guidelines to mitigate compliance issues early in the design phase and ensure that devices meet governmental and industry regulations in international markets.
- Deliver compliance risk assessment design-for-compliance specification design review and certifications/declarations during product development to ensure new hardware design meeting technical compliance requirement in the global market.
- Engage closely with hardware and supplier teams on product development to determine the impact of the proposed regulatory changes on HW design performance reliability and compliance.
- Coordinate cross-functional governance partner with Legal (R2MC) Public Policy Hardware Engineering Sustainability and Supply Chain to align on compliance strategy escalation paths and program milestones through structured review cadences.
- Own program-level deliverables end-to-end; mentor junior engineers; and influence cross-organizational decisions on compliance trade-offs without direct authority.
- Leverage AI/ML tools and automation to scale compliance operations including automated substance screening predictive regulatory risk analytics and intelligent data extraction from supplier documentation to accelerate material disclosure workflows.

This position reports to the Compliance Engineering Manager within GTPC. Location: Seattle WA with options for Sunnyvale CA or Arlington VA.

AWS is at the forefront of providing a broad set of global cloud-based services including compute storage databases networking and enterprise applications to help organizations move faster lower IT costs and scale. You will be a part of a dynamic business within and one of the worlds fastest growing and evolving companies with a team of exceptionally talented bright and innovative people. GTPC is responsible for ensuring that the infrastructure equipment necessary to support AWS services are imported/exported in a compliant manner across the multiple countries where AWS operates and will expand including all product certification/safety regulations.


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- Experience in developing functional specifications design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
- Experience with the project management of technical projects
- Masters degree in electrical engineering computer engineering or equivalent
- 5 years of product compliance experience in the area of restricted substance compliance including REACH/RoHS/POPs TSCA etc.
- 5 years of experience in product development in electronic machinery or tech industry.

- PhD in mechanical engineering electrical engineering material science physics or equivalent
- 10 years of product compliance experience in the area of restricted substance compliance including REACH/RoHS/POPs TSCA etc.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Sunnyvale - 157900.00 - 213600.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 137300.00 - 185700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 137300.00 - 185700.00 USD annually