Amazon
Vehicle Design Engineer, Prime Air Vehicle Design & Test
$137K–$186K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in air or space vehicle configuration design and integration.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
About the job
Designs, analyzes, prototypes, and tests drone vehicle configurations, integrating subsystems to meet vehicle requirements and customer needs.
What you'll do
- Develop conceptual vehicle configurations, layouts, subsystem models, structural elements, and vehicle OML.
- Feed designs into MDO tools and explore concepts to mature and size vehicles.
- Prototype designs, support wind tunnel and other testing, and coordinate across subsystem teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience in air or space vehicle configuration design and integration.
- Vehicle-level design intuition and ability to operate and analyze at the system-of-systems level.
- Proficient in CATIA/3DX and surfacing/lofting.
Nice to have
- Specialization in an aircraft design domain such as aerodynamics, performance, stability & control, propulsion, loads, or airframe structures.
- Wind tunnel testing, propeller/rotor design, MDO/MDAO, or mechanical design and rapid prototyping experience.
Pay
USD 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
CATIA/3DX, MDO/MDAO
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