Amazon
Sr. Electrical Engineer, Prime Air Perception
$137K–$186K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
About the job
Owns the design, development, and verification of Prime Air drone perception electronics and ground-based package-loading hardware, from architecture through production.
What you'll do
- Own camera and radar power and signal architecture, including complex high-speed and mixed-signal boards.
- Create schematics, guide PCB layout, and perform hardware bring-up, debugging, validation, and root-cause analysis.
- Lead technical decisions, review designs, mentor engineers, and ensure performance, quality, schedule, and cost objectives are met.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Experience troubleshooting or debugging hardware, or experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Proven completion of full FPGA product cycles from concept through production; strong DSP background implementing algorithms in hardware.
- Proficiency with FPGA design tools and experience with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, or SERDES.
Nice to have
- Experience with modern ASIC/FPGA design and verification tools, scripting languages, version control, or CI/CD.
- Experience in communication systems or RF signal processing, or design for aerospace or another regulated industry.
Pay
USD 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
FPGA, Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, DSP, PCIe, Ethernet, SERDES, Python
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