Vehicle Design Engineer, Prime Air Vehicle Design & Test

Job description

Our Prime Air Drone Vehicle Design and Test team within Flight Sciences is looking for a Vehicle Configuration Design Engineer to help us rapidly configure, design, analyze, prototype, and test innovative drone vehicles. You’ll be responsible for designing 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 & 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, and Rapid Prototyping.