Senior Avionics Hardware Engineer - Flight-Critical Systems

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon's Prime Air is seeking a Sr. Electrical Hardware Engineer responsible for end-to-end hardware development across design, validation, and manufacturing for flight-critical avionics systems, collaborating with propulsion, structures, firmware, software, safety, certification, and production teams.

You will lead verification and qualification against aerospace standards, bring up EE hardware, drive DFx with vendors, and oversee manufacturing and reliability initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of hardware engineering experience.
• Experience in root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience in PCB design, schematic capture, stack-up, and board layout.
• Proficiency with EE hardware design tools (e.g. Altium, OrCAD, MATLAB/Simulink).

Responsibilities

• Own product development lifecycle of hardware within the avionics system.
• Develop and execute verification and validation test plans meeting aerospace standards (DO-160, DO-254).
• Bring up EE hardware, validate interfaces, and unblock system integration across flight computer and sensors.
• Lead root cause analysis of hardware failures and implement fixes in production hardware.
• Drive Design for Manufacturability and Design for Reliability with vendors.
• Lead manufacturing, in-service, and reliability initiatives for avionics hardware in production.

Skills

PCB design

Root cause analysis

Leadership/mentoring

System integration

Schematic capture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

OrCAD

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Amazon's Prime Air is seeking a Sr. Electrical Hardware Engineer responsible for end-to-end hardware development across design, validation, and manufacturing for flight-critical avionics systems, collaborating with propulsion, structures, firmware, software, safety, certification, and production teams.

You will lead verification and qualification against aerospace standards, bring up EE hardware, drive DFx with vendors, and oversee manufacturing and reliability initiatives.