Senior Drone Vehicle Design & Test Engineer

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

RSUs

Health insurance

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Amazon Prime Air is seeking an engineer to rapidly configure, design, analyze, prototype, and test innovative drone vehicles. You will develop, improve, and maintain MDO tools across aircraft design disciplines and explore new designs to meet customer requirements.

You will prototype vehicle designs and support wind tunnel testing, while collaborating with the Chief Program Engineer and vehicle subsystem teams to ensure integrated, cost-effective solutions.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
• Bachelor’s Degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, physics and 7+ years experience or equivalent.
• Experience with flight vehicle design, simulation, and development.

Responsibilities

• Develop, improve, and maintain a suite of multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO) tools across aircraft design disciplines.
• Prototype vehicle designs and support wind tunnel and other testing of vehicle designs.
• Support the Office of the Chief Program Engineer and work with subsystem teams to ensure integrated designs meet performance, reliability, operability, manufacturing, and cost requirements.
• Own Flight Sciences assessments and analysis methods as the drone vehicle design progresses.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Java

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace/mechanical engineering or physics

Tools

modeFRONTIER

Model Center

OpenMDAO

CATIA

Job description

Amazon Prime Air is seeking an engineer to rapidly configure, design, analyze, prototype, and test innovative drone vehicles. You will develop, improve, and maintain MDO tools across aircraft design disciplines and explore new designs to meet customer requirements.

You will prototype vehicle designs and support wind tunnel testing, while collaborating with the Chief Program Engineer and vehicle subsystem teams to ensure integrated, cost-effective solutions.