Drone Vehicle Design Engineer – Config & Rapid Prototyping

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Vehicle Design Engineer to rapidly configure, analyze, prototype, and test drone vehicles and subsystems. You’ll create clean-sheet configurations and layouts integrating subsystems to meet requirements, model subsystems and major structures, and feed design data into MDO tools.

You’ll prototype designs and assist wind tunnel and testing activities across teams. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience in air/space vehicle configuration and/or subsystem design.
• Proficient in CAD.

Responsibilities

• Design clean-sheet vehicle configurations and layouts that integrate subsystems and meet vehicle-level requirements.
• Model internal subsystems, major structural elements, and the vehicle’s overall integration.
• Support wind tunnel testing and prototype development across the design lifecycle.

Skills

Vehicle configuration experience

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering

Tools

CAD

Job description

Amazon seeks a Vehicle Design Engineer to rapidly configure, analyze, prototype, and test drone vehicles and subsystems. You’ll create clean-sheet configurations and layouts integrating subsystems to meet requirements, model subsystems and major structures, and feed design data into MDO tools.

You’ll prototype designs and assist wind tunnel and testing activities across teams. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost