Vehicle Design Engineer, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test
- Pay
- $136,000 – $184,000 per year
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Listed
- 7 days ago
About the role
Our Prime Air Drone Vehicle Design, Modelling, and Test team within Flight Sciences is looking for a Vehicle Design Engineer to help us rapidly configure, design, analyze, prototype, and test innovative drone vehicles and vehicle subsystems. You'll be responsible for designing clean sheet conceptual level vehicle configurations and layouts that integrate all subsystems and meet vehicle level requirements.
You'll model internal subsystems, major structural elements, and the OML of the vehicle. Your designs will feed into our suite of multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO) tools to help size the vehicle and mature the design. You'll explore new and novel drone vehicle conceptual designs in both focused and wide open design spaces, with the ultimate goal of meeting our customer requirements.
You'll have the opportunity to prototype vehicle designs and support wind tunnel and other testing of vehicle designs. You will directly support the Office of the Chief Program Engineer, and work closely across all vehicle subsystem teams to ensure integrated designs that meet performance, reliability, operability, manufacturing, and cost requirements.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience in air or space vehicle configuration and/or subsystem design and integration
- Vehicle level design intuition and ability to operate & analyze at the system-of-systems level
- Proficient in CAD
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with mechanical design and rapid prototyping
- Experience designing and building test systems, infrastructure, hardware, and/or electronics
- Experience in stress analysis and/or thermal analysis
- Experience with wind tunnel testing
Additional information
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Pay and benefits
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually
About the team
How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and-most importantly-safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers, and are excited for what's to come.
Our Flight Sciences Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test organization includes teams that span the following disciplines: Aerodynamics, Performance, Stability & Control, Configuration & Spatial Integration, Loads, Structures, Mass Properties, Multi-disciplinary Optimization (MDO), Wind Tunnel Testing, Noise Testing, Flight Test Instrumentation, Subsystem Hardware Development, and Rapid Prototyping.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
From Amazon Operations Services US LLC's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 2, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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