Lead Compliance Engineer

Imagine yourself...

• Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.

• Collaborating with a vibrant, diverse, global team.

• Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.

At Hach (), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better-faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you'll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you'll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world's everyday water needs, and where you'll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we're working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us:

We offer:

• Flexible working hours

• Professional onboarding and training options

• Powerful team looking forward to working with you

• Career coaching and development opportunities

• Health benefits

• 401(k)

Reporting to the Product Assurance Engineering Manager, the Lead Compliance Engineer
is responsible for contributing to the design, development, and sustainment of water quality instruments by providing technical leadership and subject matter expertise in global product compliance, ensuring products meet applicable Safety, EMC/EMI, Wireless, Battery, Laser/LED, and international product compliance requirements
. This role supports Product Development, Sustaining, and Quality teams through practical, risk-based compliance strategies that enable compliant, market-ready products.

This position is part of the Product Development Engineering team, located in Loveland, CO, and will be onsite.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Translate compliance strategy into product deliverables.

• Evaluate component or design changes for sustaining compliance.

• Plan, perform, and oversee EMC/EMI testing internally and at external certified labs.

• Analyze compliance risks, troubleshoot failures, and recommend design mitigations (e.g., grounding, shielding, filtering, layout improvements).

• Interface with notified bodies and third-party labs to support certification activities.

• Prepare and review compliance documentation, including technical files, reports, and declarations of conformity.

• Support audits and ensure compliance documentation is complete, accurate, and audit-ready.

• Lead cross-functional compliance reviews and mentor engineers and stakeholders on product compliance topics.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or a related technical discipline.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in product compliance, or EMC engineering, preferably in instrumentation, electronics, medical devices, or industrial products.

• Interpret and apply applicable product compliance standards, with specialization in two or more of the following areas:

• Product EMC standards certification and testing of electrical instrumentation

• Product safety standards and certification and testing of electrical instrumentation

• FCC/ IC radio/wireless standards and certification

• Battery standards and certification

• RF Design

• Hazardous Locations (and ATEX) design certification of electrical instrumentation

• Laser standards and CDRH certification

• Environmental compliance (green) standards of electrical instrumentation

• Demonstrated hands-on experience with EMC/EMI testing and failure resolution.

Additional preferred experience

• Master's degree in a technical discipline.

• Experience with analytical or industrial instrumentation products.

• Familiarity with ISO 9001, ISO 13485, or similar quality systems.

• Experience working with third-party labs and certification bodies.

• Experience with wireless modules, lasers, LEDs, or battery systems.

• Specialization in multiple product…