How To Become A Compliance Engineer-Products: What It Is and Career Path

What is a compliance engineer-products and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025

2 min read

Quoted expert

Andrea Welker Ph.D.

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to being a compliance engineer-products. For example, did you know that they make an average of $65.68 an hour? That's $136,619 a year! Between 2018 and 2028, the career is expected to grow 10% and produce 30,600 job opportunities across the U.S.

What general advice would you give to a compliance engineer-products?

Andrea Welker Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University

Be open to new experiences. Find a good mentor. Become a valued employee. Always remember that you are designing something for someone.

ScoreCompliance Engineer-ProductsUS Average

Salary

8.6

Avg. Salary $136,619

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability level

7.5

Growth rate 10%

Growth rate 0.3%

Diversity

6.7

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 0.16%

Asian 10.50%

Black or African American 3.55%

Hispanic or Latino 8.68%

Unknown 3.78%

White 73.33%

Gender

female 37.04%

male 62.96%

Age - 41

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 41

Stress level

7.5

Stress level is high

7.1 - high

Complexity level

8.3

Complexity level is challenging

7 - challenging

Work life balance

5.1

Work life balance is fair

6.4 - fair

Key steps to become a compliance engineer-products

Explore compliance engineer-products education requirements

Most common compliance engineer-products degrees

Bachelor's

57.1 %

Master's

19.0 %

Associate

19.0 %

Start to develop specific compliance engineer-products skills

Skills	Percentages
Product Safety	24.07%
Safety Standards	16.65%
EU	10.10%
EMC	9.82%
RoHS	8.91%

Complete relevant compliance engineer-products training and internships

Accountants spend an average of 6-12 months on post-employment, on-the-job training. New compliance engineers-products learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a compliance engineer-products based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real compliance engineer-products resumes.

Research compliance engineer-products duties and responsibilities

Facilitate and manage CAPA investigations from creation through verification of effectiveness and closure.
Perform UL and IEC compliance testing on Oreck floor care products.
Re-Define prior system network synchronization and timing distribution architecture, and work with hardware & software design engineers to implement.
Work collaboratively with domestic and international contract GMP manufacturing facilities.

Apply for compliance engineer-products jobs

Now it's time to start searching for a compliance engineer-products job. Consider the tips below for a successful job search:

Browse job boards for relevant postings
Consult your professional network
Reach out to companies you're interested in working for directly
Watch out for job scams

How do compliance engineers-products rate their job?

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Compliance engineer-products reviews

A zippia user wrote a review on Jun 2020

Cons

very little

A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2019