Job Description

Senior Regulatory and Compliance Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Bradford on Avon, United Kingdom

Reporting To: Head of Systems Engineering

Description

About AB Dynamics

AB Dynamics is one of the world’s leading specialists in automotive test systems, supplying a range of advanced solutions including driving robots, ADAS soft crash targets and driving simulators to all major vehicle manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers globally. The company's unique technology is used for many applications including the development of autonomous vehicles.

Role Overview

As the Senior Regulatory & Compliance Engineer, you will lead product compliance and safety activities across the AB Dynamics product portfolio, helping to ensure our products meet applicable regulatory, legal, and industry requirements.

Working closely with engineering teams, you will identify the regulations, directives, and standards that apply to our products and translate these into clear, practical requirements that can be incorporated into product development. You will support product safety activities, guide compliance assessments, maintain technical documentation, and help ensure compliance is considered throughout the product lifecycle, from concept through to release and ongoing support.

You will stay up to date with changes to regulations, standards, and safety requirements, assessing their impact on current and future products and turning those requirements into clear, actionable plans that enable the business to maintain compliance and deliver safe, reliable products.

Alongside compliance responsibilities, you will play an important role in developing AB Dynamics' approach to functional safety. We recognise that functional safety expertise can be difficult to acquire and do not expect candidates to arrive with extensive experience in this area. Instead, we are looking for someone with a strong compliance and engineering mindset who is keen to learn. We will support your development in functional safety while you help build our understanding of how functional safety principles can be applied across our products, processes, and future technology roadmaps.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead product compliance activities across the AB Dynamics product portfolio, ensuring products continue to meet applicable regulatory, legal, and industry requirements.
• Identify and interpret relevant regulations, directives, standards, and guidance, translating them into clear and actionable requirements for engineering teams.
• Work closely with product development teams to embed compliance and product safety considerations throughout the product lifecycle.
• Plan, coordinate, and support compliance assessments, testing, certifications, and approvals required for market access.
• Lead product risk assessment activities, ensuring safety-related risks are identified, assessed, and appropriately mitigated.
• Maintain technical documentation, compliance records, declarations, and supporting evidence required to demonstrate compliance.
• Monitor changes in regulations, standards, and safety requirements, evaluate their impact on existing and future products, and drive the actions required to maintain compliance.
• Support the development of AB Dynamics' functional safety capability, helping to establish appropriate processes, tools, and engineering practices.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of compliance and safety processes, ensuring they remain proportionate, effective, and aligned with business needs.

What are we looking for?

Essential

• A technical background - most likely an Engineering Degree or similar.
• Experience working in a product compliance, regulatory, quality, safety, or engineering governance role.
• Good understanding of how regulations, standards, and legislation influence product design, development, and release.
• Experience interpreting technical requirements and communicating them clearly to engineering and project teams.
• Experience coordinating compliance activities and maintaining technical documentation and evidence.
• Knowledge of product risk assessment techniques and product safety principles.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities and priorities.
• Confident communicator who can work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Practical and pragmatic approach, with a focus on finding solutions and driving actions to completion.

Desirable

• Experience working with regulations and standards such as CE/UKCA, EMC, Radio Equipment Directive (RED), Machinery requirements, RoHS, REACH, Cyber Resilience, or similar product compliance frameworks.
• Experience working with third-party test houses, certification bodies, or regulatory authorities.
• Understanding of product safety standards and safety lifecycle concepts.
• Exposure to functional safety standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, IEC 62061, or similar.

Why join us?

We are part of the AB Dynamics Group, an innovative, dynamic listed business with a friendly and supportive working environment. In addition to competitive salaries, our attractive benefits package includes:

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, which increases every 2 complete years up to a max of 32 days
• Up to 10% matched pension contributions, with option to salary exchange
• Private Medical Insurance – Family cover (Company funded benefit in kind)
• Life Assurance 6x salary
• Option to join Critical Illness Insurance, Dental Insurance and Health screening
• Income protection (Company funded)
• Enhanced parental leave
• EAP including mental, physical and financial wellbeing support
• Enhanced sick pay after 1 years’ service
• Volunteering days – up to 2 per year

At AB Dynamics Group we set ourselves ambitious objectives and strive to work according to our values of customers, people, diversity, innovation, excellence and responsibility. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We do not discriminate against staff based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

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