Senior Compliance Engineer - EMC/RF

September 1, 2025

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About the position

Responsibilities

Partners with project team members to deliver compliance solutions for Garmin's consumer electronics products that incorporate wireless communication technologies and other technological solutions.
Provide compliance input to Garmin consumer products development plans.
Develop and execute compliance plans to bring Garmin products to world-wide markets.
Review compliance test reports and provides feedback to test labs.
Leads compliance and safety design review meetings.
Contributes to regulatory and standards research on new technologies, markets and geographic regions.
Creates and executes recovery plans as needed.
Ability to work with onsite and 3rd party test labs to execute Garmin's compliance strategies.
Mentors and provides guidance to less experienced Compliance Engineers.
Effectively communicates the dependencies of other departments' deliverables on our project milestones and vice versa.
Independently determines general approach and specific solutions to compliance problems.
Offers excellent suggestions to improve processes and can author some new procedures with oversight.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule).
Experience with electromagnetic compatibility, and product safety testing and country certifications or homologations.
Understands production and operations issues as they relate to compliance engineering.
Experience reviewing circuit design and PCB layout for EMC and safety design mitigation techniques.
Ability to explain and document regulatory and standards requirements.
Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

iNARTE certification in EMC and/or Product Safety.
Global market access activities.
FCC/ISED grant applications.
Previous work with circuit design of consumer products.

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