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# Sr Electrical Hardware Development Engineer, Amazon Prime Air

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $137,300.0 - $185,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** AutoCAD, Computer Engineering, Distributed Systems, Electronic Design Automation, Formal Verification, Hardware Design, CAM350, Schematic Capture, Pcb Layout
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10523332/sr-electrical-hardware-development-engineer-amazon-prime-air

## About the Role

Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability

 - Experience in motherboard design, PCB design including schematic capture, stackup and circuit board layout
 - Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
 - 6+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
 - 6+ years of electrical engineering work experience in Consumer Electronics, Power Electronics, Robotics, Aerospace, Automotive, and/or Communications fields or combination thereof., Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
 - Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
 - Experience with the project management of technical projects
 - Experience collaborating with the ECAD/physical board designer and able to review PCB designs with Allegro, CAM350, or equivalent
 - 5+ years of developing electrical schematics using AutoCAD Electrical (2010 or newer) experience
 - 5+ years of hardware development, test lab, space/aerospace maintenance or hands-on engineering environment experience
 - Experience in new hardware product development

## Description

Prime Air is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to design and develop electronic hardware and related Avionic systems and architecture for Prime Air Drones. This includes, Avionic compute and Avionics distributed systems hardware. In this role you will be working with our Seattle based team to help to deploy new hardware and Avionics architecture systems for Prime Air Drones. You will work with internal and external vendors to support hardware development, manufacturing and test., The ideal candidate will help the team in the following ways:
-Architecture and Hardware Designs, develops, Avionic compute and distributed system hardware (air data probes, lidar, radar, gnss antennas)
-Design and test other analog/digital devices components such as navigation hardware, satellite communication, air data probes, DC-DC converts and protection circuitry.
-Perform electrical analyses, circuit simulation, components sizing and selection, create electrical schematics and PCB layouts.
-Support engineering trades, estimates and interact with suppliers/partners on critical components and develop hardware from concept to mass production.
-Support developing hardware and component level requirements/specifications.
-Increase the engineering rigor behind designs, verification, and documentation.
-Perform prototype hardware and systems in labs.
-Perform formal verification testing including DO-160 and DO-254
If this sounds like the role for you, come make history with us!

About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization.


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