Title: Compliance Engineer
Band: T3
Location: Shanghai, China
Reports to: Principal: Quality, Compliance & Testing
Since launching the world’s first portable wood-pellet pizza oven in 2012, Ooni has grown into an award-winning, multinational company with a product range loved by pizza makers all over the globe. Our mission has always been to design innovative products that spark joy in our customers, and whilst we’re incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished so far - we’re only just getting started.
As our Compliance Engineer, you won’t just spot technical hurdles - you’ll drive solutions. You will be part of the cross functional team tasked with delivering projects such as line extensions of existing products, or the addition of new skus such as accessories. As part of the team you will manage specific compliance strands of cross-functional deliverables. A confident communicator, working with departments across the business, you will ensure key stakeholders understand the impact of any regulatory and product compliance requirements across our product range.
This is an on-site role, requiring a physical presence a minimum of 4 days per week in office in Shanghai, or providing on-site support at supplier locations across various locations across China. It also requires the ability to travel to the UK 3-4 times per year.
Key Responsibilities
● Project Delivery: Implement and manage the certification process for assigned projects, ensuring products meet strict requirements for global markets. On these projects you will act as the primary point of contact/consultant to the project team in the areas of:
○ Chemical Compliance – Restricted Substances: banned and restricted substances. tracking and collection of test reports to ensure compliance requirements are met
○ Chemical Compliance – Food Contact Materials: collecting and maintaining test reports from suppliers against EU regulation and EU national differences, as well as US FDA and China GB standards.
○ Labelling & Packaging Compliance: ensuring the product labelling and packaging regulatory requirements across all markets are met.
○ Technical Standards Application: ensure all standards (gas and electrical) are properly accounted for and applied/followed including gas appliance regulations, electrical safety (complete regional coverage), wireless/EMC certifications and functional safety principles
● Operational Planning: Plan 6–12 months ahead, aligning your individual work with department goals and keeping stakeholders informed.
● Problem Solving: Solve most functional problems independently on a week-to-week basis and adapt quickly to unforeseen circumstances.
● Technical Specification: Distill dense regulatory standards (e.g., IEC, EN, UL, FCC/IC, AS/NZS, GB) into clear engineering specifications and design inputs.
● Documentation: Produce and maintain compliance declarations and product technical files, ensuring they meet all regulatory requirements.
● External Liaison: Act as the vital link between Ooni and test labs; quality-check and challenge work from external partners.
● Data Accuracy: Assess data fairly to make well-informed decisions, knowing when to seek support from senior members for decisions involving incomplete data.
● EMC & Transient Voltages: Navigate electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), impulse, and transient voltage requirements as part of certification planning.
What you’ll do:
● Project Delivery: Implement and manage the certification process for assigned projects, ensuring products meet strict requirements for global markets. On these projects you will distill dense regulatory standards into clear engineering specifications for the project team to execute across the areas of:
○ Chemical Compliance - Restricted Substances
○ Chemical Compliance - Food Contact Materials
○ Labelling & Packaging Compliance
○ Technical Standards Application
● Operational Planning: Plan 6–12 months ahead, aligning your individual work with department goals and keeping stakeholders informed.
● Problem Solving: Solve most functional problems independently on a week-to-week basis and adapt quickly to unforeseen circumstances.
● Documentation: Produce and maintain compliance declarations and product technical files, ensuring they meet all regulatory requirements.
● External Liaison: Act as the vital link between Ooni and test labs; quality-check and challenge work from external partners.
Essential Skills and Experience
● Experience: electrical or firmware engineering with a track record of navigating consumer goods regulations.
● Technical Analysis: Hands-on experience with Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA / PFMEA).
● Communication: Ability to summarize complex information and present it confidently to an audience of peers or your immediate team.
● EMC Experience: Proven ability to assess EMC, impulse, and transient voltage test results and coordinate retests with labs.
● Awareness of functional safety principles (IEC 60730) – sufficient to understand test reports and escalate non-conformities to the subject matter expert. No independent delivery required.
● Working knowledge of key regulatory/compliance requirements - common to our types of products including but not limited to:
Type
EU
US
Australia
China
Regulatory
REACH, RoHS, GAR, RED, IEC 60730, PFAS, POP, CLP
FCC, UL, California Prop 65, ANSI, PFAS
AS/NZS standards, AICIS, PFAS
GB standards, SRRC, RoHS, PFAS
Labelling & Packaging
PPWR, CLP, WEEE, CE markings, battery labelling, Triman, Recyclability claim rules
FCC, Prop 65 and AB1200 warnings, TPCH heavy metals, FTC Green Guides, Recyclability claim rules
GB/T 18455, China RoHS 2, CCC, SRRC, GB 23350, Recyclability claim rules
GB/T 18455, China RoHS 2, CCC, SRRC, GB 23350, Recyclability claim rules
Cybersecurity
CRA, RED
FCC IoT labeling, NIST
IoT Code of Practice
GB standards, MLPS
Gas & Electric Technical Standards
GAR, IEC/EN, RED,
ANSI, UL, IC (Canada),
AS 5263.x, AS/NZS,
GB 16410, GB, SRRC
Nice to have:
● Experience of managing compliance requirements within a heavily regulated industry, for instance medical, automotive or aerospace.
● A proactive understanding of upcoming digital and cybersecurity legislation (such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act taking effect in Jan 2027) and how it impacts product roadmaps.
Why Ooni?
When you join one of our global teams, you’re joining a dedicated group of do-ers who value Kindness, Passion, Innovation, Ambition and Rigor above all else. We live, work and play by these values and are proud of what we’ve built here. As a member of our team, you will also receive the following:
● Work for an employer that cares about your well-being!
● 4300 CNY every year to spend on your passion – whatever that may be.
● 20 days of paid time off per year plus Public Holidays
● Access to an employee assistance programme which includes on demand coaching. ● We believe in giving back to our communities, which is why we offer every team member five paid volunteer days each year to support causes they care about.
Having a fantastic culture is really important to all of us at Ooni. We work hard to make it diverse and inclusive, and want everyone to have access to the same opportunities. If you would like this advert in a different format or need an alternative method of applying, please let us know.
