Drone Vehicle Design Engineer — Prime Air (Modelling & Test)

Amazon Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 136,000 - 184,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Vehicle Design Engineer for Prime Air to rapidly configure, analyze, prototype, and test drone vehicles and subsystems. You will develop clean sheet configurations and model internal subsystems to feed MDO tools and mature designs that meet performance and manufacturability targets.

Responsibilities include evaluating vehicle concepts, integrating subsystems across teams, and supporting wind tunnel tests to validate designs.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering or equivalent.
3+ years of experience in air or space vehicle configuration and/or subsystem design and integration.
Vehicle level design intuition and ability to operate & analyze at the system-of-systems level.
Proficient in CAD.

Responsibilities

Design clean sheet conceptual level vehicle configurations and layouts that integrate subsystems and meet vehicle level requirements.
Model internal subsystems, major structural elements, and the OML of the vehicle.
Support wind tunnel and other testing of vehicle designs.
Work with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet performance, reliability, operability, manufacturing, and cost requirements.