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# Sr./Staff Compliance Engineer at Antora Energy

- **Company:** Antora Energy
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/antora/jobs/6237091004

## 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.

## Key Qualifications

- Bachelor's or equivalent in mechanical, electrical, chemical, fire protection, or related engineering field and 8+ years of experience  in product compliance, certification, safety engineering, or codes and standards for energy, industrial, or high-hazard equipment
- Deep, first-principles safety judgment: starts from human safety and real risk, reasons from hazards and failure behavior to requirements, and treats standards as tools rather than relying solely on prescriptive code language
- Pragmatic and flexible: drives toward simple, effective requirements grounded in real risk, and is comfortable working through cost tradeoffs with engineering
- Hands-on experience taking novel or first-of-a-kind equipment through certification and permitting, including working directly with AHJs and NRTLs/certifiers (e.g., UL, CSA, TÜV, Intertek)
- Working fluency in the codes and standards governing energy storage and industrial energy facilities — e.g., NFPA 855/70 (NEC), UL 9540, ASME, IFC/IBC, ASCE 7
- Experience building safety cases and supporting hazard analyses and test programs (e.g., FMEA, HAZOP, fault tree analysis) with engineering and testing teams
- Persuasive technical communicator who can influence standards committees, regulators, certifiers, and internal engineering leaders, and build consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity: identifies the highest compliance risks early, scopes them, drives them to resolution, and knows when to escalate
- Strong commercial judgment — connects compliance decisions to product cost, schedule, and deployment risk
- AI-fluent: high level of comfort with leading AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and strong instincts for which workflows to automate
- Motivated by impact beyond self-interest: believes in the mission, puts team and mission first, works with humility and openness, and sticks through hard stretches

Additional Qualifications Desired

- Active participation in standards development organizations (NFPA, ASME, ASHRAE, UL Standards & Engagement, IEC), including drafting proposed code language
- Experience with thermal energy storage, battery energy storage, high-temperature systems, or pressure equipment
- Experience leading a product from field certification to NRTL listing for high-volume production
- Familiarity with state-by-state permitting, including the Midwest and Texas (e.g., Texas, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois)
- Familiarity with international codes and standards (e.g., IEC, EU, Australia)
- Experience writing or implementing company safety and reliability policies, risk acceptance criteria, or management-of-change processes (ISO 12100, IEC 61508, or similar)
- Hardware startup, new-industry, or first-of-a-kind deployment experience
- PE license or fire protection credentials

Work Location:  Hybrid- San Jose, CA

Salary Range:  $171,000 USD - $235,000 USD

Salary Basis:  Annual

Please note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

https://diversityjobs.com/employer/top-diversity-employers?utm_campaign=TopEmployer&utm_medium=badge  When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.

## About Antora Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Antora Energy manufactures and deploys modular thermal batteries that convert low-cost, intermittent clean electricity into reliable, always-on heat and power for global industrial facilities and data centers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Justin Briggs, Andrew Ponec, David Bierman

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy Power Generation, Thermal Energy Storage, Industrial Decarbonization
- **Target customers**: Large-scale industrial energy users (biofuels, refining, pulp & paper, steel & iron, chemicals, mining, concrete & lime, food & beverage) and data center operators (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We are here to power global industry with clean energy.” The company aims to make cheap, clean energy the standard that powers global industry.

## Products & Services
- **Thermal Battery System**: A modular, factory-built energy storage system that uses solid carbon (one of the safest, most stable materials on earth) to store surplus clean electricity as heat. It delivers always-on heat and power for industrial operations, scales from megawatts to gigawatts, and is designed for low cost, rapid deployment, and massive scale.
- **Project Big Stone**: One of the largest battery storage systems in the world, deployed in under 12 months for POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer. It delivers affordable, reliable energy and serves as a proof-of-concept for the company’s giga-scale deployment model.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$220.0M** across 10 rounds, including a $150M Series B led by Decarbonization Partners (Feb 2024). Annual revenue estimated at **$7.7M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Decarbonization Partners, National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission. Key partner: POET (biofuels).
- **Growth Signals**: 197 employees (+36.6% YoY), 31,700 LinkedIn followers (+42.9% YoY), active job postings up 140% YoY. The company is building gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries annually at its U.S. factory and has a presence in Spain.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Technology**: Uses solid carbon thermal storage—a simple, safe, and low-cost material—to provide both heat and power, differentiating from chemical battery or molten salt solutions.
- **Modular & Factory-Built**: Modules are manufactured in a U.S. factory, enabling rapid deployment, seamless integration, and operational redundancy at any scale.
- **Speed to Market**: Project Big Stone advanced from an empty lot to energy delivery in under 12 months, demonstrating a fast deployment model that can be replicated globally.
- **Multi-day Storage**: Provides reliable energy for industrial operations where downtime is not an option, solving the intermittency problem of renewables.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale and Replicate**: Replicating the Project Big Stone model at factories and data centers across the U.S. and globally.
- **Giga-scale Manufacturing**: Expanding factory capacity to produce gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries each year, with a focus on American manufacturing.
- **Market Expansion**: Targeting hard-to-abate industrial sectors (steel, cement, chemicals) and data centers, while expanding internationally (e.g., Spain).
- **Cost Leadership**: Driving down costs to make cheap, clean energy the standard for global industry.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company’s north star is to power global industry with clean energy, offering employees a chance to work on one of the most urgent climate challenges.
- **Culture**: Values include “Build with Humility & Openness,” “Team & Mission First,” and “Joy & Laughter Connect Us.” The company emphasizes kindness, collaboration, and learning from setbacks.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with “Home Week” each quarter to bring in-person and remote team members together. Offices in San Jose, CA; Big Stone City, SD; and remote roles in the U.S.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, 401k match, 16 weeks paid parental leave, comprehensive medical/vision/dental, HSA with employer contribution, subsidized backup childcare/senior care/petcare, mental health support, on-site gym, healthy snacks, and volunteer time off.
- **Engineering & Impact**: Teams work on cutting-edge thermal storage, manufacturing, and field engineering. The company is growing fast (36% headcount growth) and offers the chance to shape a new industry.

## Sources
1. [antora.com](https://www.antora.com/)
2. [antora.com/company](https://www.antora.com/company)
3. [antora.com/careers](https://www.antora.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/antora-energy)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy)

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