Director of Regulatory Affairs

Gatewell Group is a Los Angeles compliance firm working the FCC Covered List: vendor-bench diligence, origin evidence, and Conditional Approval filings for manufacturers and the US companies that buy from them. We are hiring a new Director of Regulatory Affairs.

The Director coordinates operations across our regulatory practice lines (equipment authorization, Conditional Approval filings, and the evidence standards behind both), and directs every technical filing the firm makes.

You would set the evidentiary standard, not inherit one.

What you would do

• Direct the technical content of Conditional Approval filings to the FCC and the reviewing agency (DoW for robotics, DoW or DHS for inverters), including per-component BOM origin, supply-chain concentration analysis, and the officer certification package.
• Own agency correspondence. You are the firm's technical voice on the record.
• Set the evidentiary bar for Gatewell Protocol origin-evidence work, and review analyst work product against it.
• Advise clients on equipment-authorization strategy, including permissive-change exposure for already-authorized devices under the Class I/II restrictions and the DA 26-789 software waiver.
• Screen prospective filing engagements. We take only the cases we believe in, and you would hold that line with us.

Who this is for

• Ten or more years inside FCC equipment authorization. The strongest candidates are former lead reviewers at a Telecommunication Certification Body, former FCC OET staff, or senior certification engineers at an FCC-recognized lab.
• You have read more failed applications than most consultants have read successful ones, and you can say precisely why they failed.
• Working knowledge of 47 CFR Part 2 Subpart J, the KDB publications, and the Covered List framework as it has developed since the December 2025 drone listing.
• You can write for a regulator. Most of this job is written.

Compensation and location

• $205,000 to $245,000, depending on depth of agency experience.
• Full-time, in-house, hybrid. You work from our Los Angeles office as the week requires. This is not a remote role.
• You must reside in Southern California and be authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor employment visas.
• Client and agency travel as filings require.

About Gatewell Group

Gatewell Group is a Los Angeles compliance firm built for the FCC Covered List era, and we work both sides of the gate. For US importers, distributors, EPCs and project developers, we run vendor-bench diligence and build the origin-evidence files that establish which hardware lines are covered, grandfathered, or clean. For manufacturers in Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Europe, we take a deliberately limited number of Conditional Approval filing engagements each year, with US manufacturing plans and domestic-content engineering behind them.

We publish the Gatewell Protocol for Origin Evidence, an open documentation standard for demonstrating non-covered origin, with a public certification registry. It is free to use, cite, and require of counterparties.

Gatewell Group is not a law firm; filings are prepared with supervising counsel. We screen every engagement and every hire against OFAC/SDN, and we do not take PRC-nexus work.

To apply

Email careers@gatewellgroup.com with Director of Regulatory Affairs in the subject line. A résumé or LinkedIn URL is enough to start. Every application gets a reply.