Product Safety and Compliance Engineer

About Engineered Arts

Since 2004, Engineered Arts has been at the forefront of robotics, creating lifelike social humanoids that have captivated audiences worldwide. Our vision is to revolutionize the human experience through embodied AI, loved and trusted in every home.

Engineered Arts is seeking a Senior Product Safety & Compliance Engineer to own day-to-day compliance execution across our humanoid robots, AI-enabled platforms, and Robot-as-a-Service offerings.

Reporting to the Head of Compliance, this role is responsible for maintaining global market access, ensuring product safety and certification continuity, and embedding compliance-by-design into engineering, manufacturing, and field operations as we scale from low-volume innovation to global deployment.

This job can be worked remotely with bi-monthly visits to the London (Farringdon) office

Key Responsibilities

• Own CE, FCC, ISED and global certification maintenance for robotic platforms
• Maintain Technical Files, test evidence, labelling, manuals, and change control
• Lead pre-compliance and certification testing (EMC, safety, RF, batteries, mechanical hazards)
• Review engineering changes, supplier substitutions, and cost-down initiatives for compliance impact
• Support AI governance, cybersecurity, and data protection compliance within products
• Coordinate with and attend test labs, notified bodies, suppliers, and manufacturing partners
• Ensure compliance across customer support, field service, and RaaS operations
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and support regulatory inspections

Essential Experience And Expertise

• Significant experience in product safety and regulatory compliance for complex hardware systems (robotics, industrial equipment, consumer electronics, or similar).
• Strong working knowledge of CE marking, EMC, RF, safety standards, and certification processes.
• Experience working with test laboratories, notified bodies, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
• Experience managing design change control in regulated environments.

Desirable Experience and Expertise

• Ability to interpret and apply global regulations pragmatically within fast-moving engineering teams.
• Experience creating and formalising workflows and processes for ISO 9001 preparation.
• Practical exposure to AI governance, cybersecurity compliance, or data protection within product organisations.

Reporting and Authority

• Reports directly to the Head of Compliance.
• Acts as operational owner for compliance BAU across products and services.
• Escalates strategic, novel, or high-risk regulatory matters appropriately.

Personal Attributes

• Highly organised, detail-driven, and process-oriented.
• Comfortable operating autonomously as the day-to-day compliance authority.
• Technically credible with engineers while remaining risk-aware and evidence-led.
• Calm and structured under audit, incident, or regulatory scrutiny.
• Committed to enabling innovation through clear, proportionate compliance.
• Comfortable working hands-on with engineers in fast-moving R&D environments
• Structured and confident owning compliance BAU autonomously

Role Fit

This role is ideal for a senior compliance engineer who wants deep technical ownership and real influence in a world-leading robotics company.

About Engineered Arts

Engineered Arts is the leading manufacturer of full-size humanoid robots used for entertainment, education and communication. With 20 years of hardware and software development, our robots have been sold in over 30 countries worldwide with customers such as NASA, PwC, Meta and many more.

Our Ameca robot is well known as ‘the face of AI’ and a social media viral success, taking advantage of the generative AI craze. Along with our ultra-realistic Mesmer range of animated figures our robots continue to surprise and excite visitors at museums, theme parks, visitor attractions and trade shows as well as aid leading universities with AI and robotics research. Our robots are poised to break into the future mega-expansion service robot segment, with applications such as front of house, receptions, check-in desks, information points and PoS. We are also exploring how our humanoid robot technology can disrupt other robotics sectors such as the growing cobot sub-segment of the industrial robotics market.

We are a team of dedicated engineers and creatives striving to develop the very best experiences for our customers. Our internal motto is ‘Be Wow’, everything we do is fun, entertaining or surprising to encounter. We always push the boundaries of what is possible in humanoid robotics, researching and developing new systems and techniques to further their appeal. We explore and challenge the human perception of robots as well as the fear and discomfort and the excitement and joy life-like mechanical humanoids present.

At Engineered Arts, innovation is at the core of everything we do — and we believe true innovation only happens when diverse minds come together.

We are committed to building a workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives feel welcome, supported, and empowered to contribute. Whether you’re an engineer, developer, or creative thinker, we value what makes you unique.

We actively promote inclusion across our hiring, design, and development practices, and we’re always looking for new ways to reflect the world around us — in our team, our robots, and our ideas.

Because building the future means including everyone in it.”

We are committed to equal opportunity in employment and comply with all applicable non-discrimination and equal employment laws in the regions where we operate.