Vehicle Design Engineer, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test

Amazon is hiring a Vehicle Design Engineer, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test in Seattle, United States. It pays $136k-$184k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Our Prime Air Drone Vehicle Design, Modelling, and Test team within Flight Sciences is looking for a Vehicle Design Engineer to help us rapidly configure, design, analyze, prototype, and test innovative drone vehicles and vehicle subsystems. You’ll be responsible for designing clean sheet conceptual level vehicle configurations and layouts that integrate all subsystems and meet vehicle level requirements. You'll model internal subsystems, major structural elements, and the OML of the vehicle. Your designs will feed into our suite of multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO) tools to help size the vehicle and mature the design. You’ll explore new and novel drone vehicle conceptual designs in both focused and wide open design spaces, with the ultimate goal of meeting our customer requirements. You’ll have the opportunity to prototype vehicle designs and support wind tunnel and other testing of vehicle designs. You will directly support the Office of the Chief Program Engineer, and work closely across all vehicle subsystem teams to ensure integrated designs that meet performance, reliability, operability, manufacturing, and cost requirements.

About the team
How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and—most importantly—safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers, and are excited for what’s to come. Check out more information about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-delivery-drone-reveal-photos).

Our Flight Sciences Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test organization includes teams that span the following disciplines: Aerodynamics, Performance, Stability & Control, Configuration & Spatial Integration, Loads, Structures, Mass Properties, Multi-disciplinary Optimization (MDO), Wind Tunnel Testing, Noise Testing, Flight Test Instrumentation, Subsystem Hardware Development, and Rapid Prototyping.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience in air or space vehicle configuration and/or subsystem design and integration
- Vehicle level design intuition and ability to operate & analyze at the system-of-systems level
- Proficient in CAD

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with mechanical design and rapid prototyping
- Experience designing and building test systems, infrastructure, hardware, and/or electronics
- Experience in stress analysis and/or thermal analysis
- Experience with wind tunnel testing

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Vehicle Design Engineer, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test at Amazon rates 27 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Vehicle Design Engineer, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $136k-$184k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on November 2, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon