Amazon
Hardware Systems Engineer, Prime Air, Avionics Hardware
$117K–$160K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of hardware design and validation experience.
- Education
- BS degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
About the job
Integrates, tests, and validates flight-critical avionics hardware for Prime Air drones throughout the product lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Validate avionics hardware interfaces and build and operate test systems at bring-up, subsystem, and system levels.
- Develop and execute verification, validation, qualification, and compliance test plans; analyze results and report recommendations.
- Troubleshoot hardware failures, implement corrective actions, and support manufacturing, in-service, and reliability initiatives.
What they ask for
- BS degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- 2+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
- Experience with coding/scripting in one or more languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby, or PowerShell)
Nice to have
- Experience with drones, electric vehicles, robotics, satellites, automation, or similarly complex systems involving electrical-mechanical-software interfaces.
- Experience with aerospace electronics or avionics hardware and applicable standards (DO-160, DO-254).
Pay
117,300.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby, PowerShell, DO-160, DO-254
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