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Reno, Nevada, United States
Onsite
Company Overview
Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.
We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.
And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.
We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.
Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.
Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.
With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
Join us in building the power foundation of the future!
Head of Compliance — Amperesand
About Amperesand
Amperesand is building next-generation power infrastructure systems for data centers, EV charging platforms, and future energy applications. Our systems combine advanced power electronics, embedded controls, and scalable energy architectures to rethink how power is converted, controlled, and deployed.
Compliance is the team that guides the company through the certification process from inception through authorization to mark in a way that our customers and regulators can trust.
About the Role
We are looking for a Director, Product Compliance to evolve, build, and lead Amperesand's compliance department and own all compliance activity across the company's solid-state transformer platforms. This is a high-visibility, hands-on department leadership role. In this role, you are accountable for the full compliance program, including electrical safety, functional safety, cybersecurity, EMC/EMI, and certification execution, as well as for the people who deliver it.
As the Head of Compliance, you will operate as both a functional leader and a hands-on technical authority. You will set the strategy and build the organization while remaining directly engaged in critical technical reviews, certification activities, standards interpretation, testing strategy, and issue resolution. As the team scales, you will develop leaders and subject-matter experts while maintaining technical ownership of the overall compliance program.
UL 2877 and UL 1741 are the primary standards governing Amperesand's products and the backbone of the compliance program you will own. All other applicable standards, including IEC/UL 60730-1, IEC 62443, UL 1998, UL 991, IEEE 1547.1, and adjacent grid-interconnection and functional safety frameworks, are supporting standards that you will integrate into Amperesand's primary compliance framework.
This role combines strong people leadership with the technical depth and hands-on credibility to be Amperesand's internal and external authority on compliance, and the communication skill to align engineering, product, and executive stakeholders as well as customers and certification bodies around a single compliance strategy.
What You'll Do
Own the Compliance Department
Lead Compliance Strategy — UL 2877 and UL 1741 as the Primary Framework
Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration
Own Certification and NRTL / Test Lab Relationships
Oversee Functional Safety and Cybersecurity as Compliance Domains
Build Compliance Infrastructure and Communicate Program Status
What You'll Bring
Technical Skills
Nice to Have
Working Model
This is a full-time onsite role based in the South Bay Area or Reno, NV, with in-person collaboration expected five days a week. Given the highly cross-functional nature of compliance leadership across hardware, embedded systems, and product organizations, onsite partnership is critical to enabling rapid alignment and certification execution.
Travel will be required to interface with team members in other office locations.
Why Join Amperesand
Candidate Confidentiality & Information Protection
As part of our commitment to protecting confidential and proprietary information, candidates should not disclose or provide Amperesand with any confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information belonging to a current or former employer or any other third party during the application or interview process.
Please do not submit or present employer-owned source code, schematics, designs, technical documentation, internal presentations, customer information, prototypes, or other confidential materials. Candidates should discuss their experience and accomplishments at an appropriate level and use only information and materials they are authorized to share.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Amperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Amperesand is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
Candidate Confidentiality & Information Protection
As part of our commitment to protecting confidential and proprietary information, candidates should not disclose or provide Amperesand with any confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information belonging to a current or former employer or any other third party during the application or interview process.
Please do not submit or present employer-owned source code, schematics, designs, technical documentation, internal presentations, customer information, prototypes, or other confidential materials. Candidates should discuss their experience and accomplishments at an appropriate level and use only information and materials they are authorized to share.
Pay Disclosure & Benefits
Compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.
The benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United States.
Singapore-based employees receive benefits in accordance with local government provisions.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Amperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Amperesand is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
