Amazon
Hardware Dev Eng II, Prime Air
$117K–$160K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years is listed as a preferred qualification.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent; a master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent is preferred.
About the job
Develops and sustains flight-critical avionics hardware for autonomous drones across design, validation, manufacturing, and production support.
What you'll do
- Own hardware product development and execute verification and validation, qualification, and compliance testing.
- Bring up hardware, validate interfaces, and resolve integration issues across flight computers and sensor subsystems.
- Lead hardware failure analysis and corrective actions, and drive manufacturability, reliability, and production initiatives.
What they ask for
- Experience with prototyping and implementation.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
- Experience in root cause analysis and error correction, including implementing long-term fixes.
- Experience in motherboard and PCB design, including schematic capture, stackup, and circuit board layout; alternatively, experience with modern ASIC/FPGA design and verification tools.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
- Experience with product-level validation testing, reliability engineering, or 5+ years in hardware development, a test lab, space/aerospace maintenance, or a hands-on engineering environment.
Pay
117,300.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
DO-160, DO-254, ASIC, FPGA, PCB, DFMEA
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