Lead Systems Engineer – Aerial Traffic Management

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to lead subsystem engineering for the Airspace Mission Orchestration System, coordinating with top developers to deliver scalable, certifiable cloud-based traffic management.

You will own the full system life cycle from concept to production, perform trade studies, write engineering artifacts, and ensure compliance with safety and regulatory requirements while driving rapid, dependable deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience as a technical lead, systems engineer, or technical program manager with significant experience in complex systems.
• Experience developing test strategies and plans for complex hardware/software systems or systems of systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Master's degree in Aerospace, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience in Geospatial engineering, Weather Science, Distributed Systems, Flight Decks, or Traffic Management.
• Experience in cloud based software development, system design, and/or distributed system architecture.
• 3+ years of experience in environments with ARP4754A, DO-178C, DO-278A, DO-254, or related.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the systems engineering lead and subject matter expert for subsystem(s) within the Airspace Mission Orchestration System, containing the safety critical cloud based operator interface, traffic management, communications, route planning, geospatial, and distributed system functions.
• Lead interdisciplinary trade studies across Prime Air software, system, product, and regulatory functions to determine the critical requirements for a scalable cloud based system architecture.
• Generate key systems engineering artifacts CONOPs, design documents, interface control documents, requirements, test cases, test procedure, test execution, and verification reports.
• Own the entire system life cycle, taking features from concept to production in a way that is safe, performant, and certifiable.

Skills

Technical lead

Systems engineering

Test strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to lead subsystem engineering for the Airspace Mission Orchestration System, coordinating with top developers to deliver scalable, certifiable cloud-based traffic management.

You will own the full system life cycle from concept to production, perform trade studies, write engineering artifacts, and ensure compliance with safety and regulatory requirements while driving rapid, dependable deployments.