Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer - Airborne Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Prime Air is seeking a Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer to define and lead reliability strategy for hardware used in airborne systems. You will develop reliability requirements, test methodologies, and environmental qualification programs while partnering with engineering teams to improve drone hardware reliability throughout the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will lead design-for-reliability activities, DFMEA, environmental testing, and data-driven risk modeling, interacting

Qualifications

• Experience developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures.
• 7+ years of hardware reliability engineering, hardware test and validation, product qualification, or failure analysis.
• Experience developing and executing environmental, accelerated-life, or reliability-growth test plans for complex electromechanical hardware.
• Experience using test instrumentation, data-acquisition systems, and analysis tools to characterize hardware performance and failure mechanisms.
• Experience documenting test methods, results, failure analyses, and technical recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Own hardware reliability strategy across architecture, qualification, production, and field operations.
• Define quantitative requirements, success criteria, and validation plans based on mission profiles, environmental conditions, and service life.
• Lead design-for-reliability activities, including risk assessments, DFMEA, reliability block diagrams, and design reviews.
• Develop environmental, accelerated-life, and reliability-growth programs for airborne hardware, including test methods and acceptance criteria for temperature, vibration, shock, humidity, and ingress.
• Architect scalable test frameworks, fixtures, instrumentation, automation, and data systems.
• Apply Weibull analysis, design of experiments, confidence bounds, and accelerated-life models to quantify risk and predict product lifetime.
• Lead FRACAS and multidisciplinary root-cause investigations, driving corrective actions with design, systems, test, manufacturing, safety, quality, operations, and supplier teams.
• Analyze qualification, production, and fleet data to identify trends and prioritize improvements.
• Provide data-driven recommendations during architecture, design, test-readiness, and qualification reviews.
• Maintain traceable hardware configurations, procedures, results, and technical decisions.
• Establish reliability standards and supplier controls, communicate risks to senior leadership, mentor engineers, and serve as a hardware reliability authority across Prime Air.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Leadership

System-level thinking

Tools

FRACAS

Weibull analysis

Design of experiments

Test instrumentation

Job description

Amazon Prime Air is seeking a Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer to define and lead reliability strategy for hardware used in airborne systems. You will develop reliability requirements, test methodologies, and environmental qualification programs while partnering with engineering teams to improve drone hardware reliability throughout the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will lead design-for-reliability activities, DFMEA, environmental testing, and data-driven risk modeling, interacting