Compliance Engineer (IEC 60601-1/EMC & IEC 62304) (Medical Devices) (freelance/part-time)

Yalantis is looking for an experienced Compliance Engineer to join a healthcare pre-sales engagement as an independent consultant.

You’ll collaborate with our engineering team and the client to define the compliance strategy for a next-generation critical care ventilator intended for FDA 510(k) submission.

This is a part-time consulting engagement, focused on compliance planning, regulatory strategy, verification planning, and project estimation.

What you will do:

• Map system and board requirements to IEC 62304, IEC 60601 and FDA evidence needs; establish the Class C / Class B boundaries to be resolved.
• Author the standards coverage matrix — what we cover, what is shared, what stays with the client, by which method, accepted at which gate.
• Define the IEC 62304 evidence structure and SOUP approach (RTOS, Linux BSP, Qt, third-party libraries, battery-pack BMS): versions, anomaly review, update and revalidation policy.
• Produce ISO 14971 design inputs: failure modes, safe-state categories, single-fault tolerance — as inputs to the client’s risk management file.
• Draft the verification and pre-compliance test plan: unit / integration / system verification, EMC, hipot, thermal imaging, 30-day continuous soak — and the split between our bench and the accredited lab.
• Set up traceability, the verification matrix and the compliance checklist in a structure compatible with the client’s DHF.
• Own the compliance line of the phased estimate: effort per gate, plus a quantified list of cost and schedule optimisation options with the risk attached to each.
• Contribute regulatory risks, assumptions and dependencies to the program register
  Client workshops.
• Requirements and system context — compliance priorities.
• Compliance strategy — IEC 62304 lifecycle, SOUP, ISO 14971, 60601 and 60601-1-8 design implications.
• Verification and pre-compliance planning — EMC, hipot, thermal, soak, DHF handover package.
• Estimate walkthrough — defend the compliance scope and effort with the client’s engineering team.

Must have:

• 5+ years in medical device compliance, including at least 1 full cycle on a Class II life-supporting or life-sustaining device from design inputs through pre-compliance.
• Working command of IEC 60601-1: MOPP/MOOP, creepage and clearance, Type BF applied parts, isolation barriers, dielectric strength testing.
• IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC) — able to read a layout for EMC risk and issue constraints before routing, not review after.
• IEC 62304 for Class C: lifecycle, requirements-to-design-to-verification traceability, software item classification and segregation, SOUP management.
• ISO 14971 applied at design level — FMEA, safe states, single-fault tolerance.
• ISO 13485 QMS, comfortable operating under a client’s QMS and supporting internal and external audits.
• FDA design controls (21 CFR 820.30), DHF structure and 510(k) — clear on what a submission needs from a development vendor.
• Hands-on planning and support of pre-compliance testing (EMC, dielectric strength, thermal) and work with accredited test laboratories.
• Able to estimate your own effort per phase and defend the number in front of a client’s technical team.
• English at B2/C1 level.

Nice to have:

• ISO 80601-2-12, IEC 60601-1-8 alarm systems.
• Contribution to a 510(k) that reached clearance.
• IEC 62366 usability engineering — enough to hold the boundary correctly.
• IEC 81001-5-1 and FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance.
• EU MDR technical documentation, in case of market expansion.
• Enough familiarity with MISRA C:2012 and static-memory-allocation evidence to accept firmware records on substance rather than on filename.

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