# Drone Avionics Electrical Engineer, Prime Air

As an Electrical Hardware Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for end-to-end hardware development lifecycle across design, validation, and manufacturing for flight-critical avionics systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams - including propulsion, structures, firmware, software, safety, certification, production - to meet the highest standards of safety and reliability. Key job responsibilities Own the product development lifecycle of hardware within the avionics system Develop and execute verification and validation test plans, including qualification and compliance against aerospace standards (e.g., DO-160, DO-254) Bring up EE hardware, validate interfaces, and unblock system integration across the flight computer and connected sensor subsystems Lead root cause analysis of hardware failures across hardware/software interfaces, then develop corrective actions and implement fixes in production hardware Drive DFM and DFR with fabrication, assembly, and qualification vendors, and lead manufacturing, in-service, and reliability initiatives for avionics hardware in production About the team Prime Air is Amazon's autonomous drone delivery service. Our mission i

- **Id**: 4303140
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-drone-avionics-electrical-engineer-prime-air>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T04:53:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T04:53:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3880
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drones & UAVs, Advertising, Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 4577
- **Ghost share**: 0.001
- **Stale share**: 0.815
- **Repost share**: 0.004
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 33
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 136000
- **Max**: 184000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 184000

## Technologies

- **DO-160** — Optional: no
- **DO-254** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T04:53:22Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 184000
- **Is top pay**: no

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