Senior Avionics & Hardware Engineer – Drones

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Prime Air is seeking an experienced Electrical Hardware Development Engineer to design and develop avionics hardware and distributed systems for Prime Air Drones in Seattle, WA. You will work with suppliers and internal teams to drive hardware from concept to mass production, perform analyses, and verify designs to DO-160/DO-254 standards.

This role requires 6+ years of hardware design experience, strong PCB and schematic skills, and a Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience.
• 6+ years of electrical engineering work experience in Consumer Electronics, Power Electronics, Robotics, Aerospace, Automotive, and/or Communications fields or combination thereof.
• Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability
• Experience in motherboard design, PCB design including schematic capture, stackup and circuit board layout
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Architecture and Hardware Designs, develops, Avionic compute and distributed system hardware (air data probes, lidar, radar, gnss antennas)
• Design and test other analog/digital devices components such as navigation hardware, satellite communication, air data probes, DC-DC converts and protection circuitry.
• Perform electrical analyses, circuit simulation, components sizing and selection, create electrical schematics and PCB layouts.
• Support engineering trades, estimates and interact with suppliers/partners on critical components and develop hardware from concept to mass production.
• Support developing hardware and component level requirements/specifications.
• Increase the engineering rigor behind designs, verification, and documentation.
• Perform prototype hardware and systems in labs.
• Perform formal verification testing including DO-160 and DO-254

Skills

Component selection

PCB design

Schematic capture

Electronics hardware design

Hardware validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering

Tools

Allegro

CAM350

AutoCAD Electrical

Job description

Amazon Prime Air is seeking an experienced Electrical Hardware Development Engineer to design and develop avionics hardware and distributed systems for Prime Air Drones in Seattle, WA. You will work with suppliers and internal teams to drive hardware from concept to mass production, perform analyses, and verify designs to DO-160/DO-254 standards.

This role requires 6+ years of hardware design experience, strong PCB and schematic skills, and a Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering.