Sr./Staff Compliance Engineer

Antora Energy · San Jose, CA

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-11-03
  • Confirmed live on 6 November 2026

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Job description

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Sr./Staff Compliance Engineer to establish and own Antora's compliance strategy as we design and scale our future generation thermal batteries. Thermal energy storage does not fit neatly into existing codes and standards, and the requirements being written today at NFPA, ASME, ASHRAE, and UL, as well as the associated European and Australian regulatory frameworks, will shape our product's cost, performance, and ability to deploy across jurisdictions for years to come. As we move toward high-volume factory production, late design changes and project-by-project compliance become increasingly costly.

You will be the deeply technical, creative engineer who shapes how codes and standards are written while we design the product: using product goals and engineering evidence to influence requirements, and using standards discussions to inform design choices so that safety, cost, performance, and deployability are optimized together. You will work with module, plant, and test engineers to build a clear, reusable safety case that permitting authorities and certifiers will accept, develop practical certification pathways with AHJs and NRTLs, and lead Antora toward NRTL listing so our products can be permitted, commissioned, and operated safely and predictably at scale, with industry-leading speed to power.

This role will report to the Product Management team, working in close partnership with product development, engineering, testing, projects, and EH&S.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own Antora's compliance strategy across product design, testing, and deployment. Define certification boundaries and supporting evidence, including module-to-plant dependencies, and support module, plant, and test engineers' work on hazards and safe failure behavior. Coordinate with engineering and testing teams on the analyses and tests needed for compliance.

• Build the safety case and certification pathways. Develop a clear, reusable safety case grounded in analysis and test evidence, and build early, collaborative relationships with AHJs and NRTLs/certifiers to establish practical acceptance pathways for upcoming deployments.

• Lead Antora's codes and standards advocacy with NFPA, ASME, ASHRAE, UL Standards & Engagement, and other relevant bodies: participate in working groups and task groups, propose language, and build support for technically sound requirements. Decide with engineering when to change the design and when to advocate for a better requirement.

• Inform project-level certification strategy until listing is in place. For each site, assess the AHJ's likely requirements and the probability, cost, and schedule impact of field certification versus alternatives (e.g., state machinery designation). Align project, commercial, and engineering stakeholders on the approach and run the effort with minimal draw on the core project execution team.

• Develop a long-term UL/NRTL certification strategy aligned with the product roadmap, achieving NRTL listing so field certification is no longer needed and supporting Antora's shift from field work to high-volume factory production.

• Build a comprehensive codes and standards database covering current and future products across domestic and international jurisdictions, translating dense standards into clear requirements engineering can execute on, and use it to drive knowledge transfer and traceability into design, manufacturing, and commissioning processes.

• Recommend environmental design standards (e.g., ASCE 7, IEC 62305, IP ratings) and their applicability to TES field, balance of plant, and electrical systems, translating dense standards into requirements engineering can execute on. Help determine which conditions require survival vs. operability, derive enveloping environmental conditions for each generation's target markets, and advise on when distinct product versions are needed for different geographies (e.g., reinforced structures for high-seismic regions).

• Help write Antora's first company product safety and reliability policy in partnership with EH&S and reliability teams, following industry best practices per ISO 12100 and other standards: set risk acceptance criteria, hazard analysis requirements at design gates, and management of change for safety-critical designs.

• Typical travel of ~15–25% for standards meetings, AHJ/certifier engagements, and project sites.

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