# Drone Test and Simulation Hardware Development Engineer, Prime Air

Do you enjoy getting hands-on with complex electromechanical systems and keeping critical test infrastructure running at peak performance? As a Hardware Development Engineer at Amazon, you will combine 3D modeling and mechanical design with the build, maintenance, and troubleshooting of test systems that support hardware production. Working across hardware, software, and production teams, you will diagnose failures, identify root causes, and drive improvements that increase test system reliability and lab operational efficiency. This is a role where your design and engineering skills directly enable the teams around you to ship quality products. Key job responsibilities Design and model hardware components and test fixtures in CAD to meet defined specifications and manufacturing requirements Triage and troubleshoot test system and hardware failures to root cause, using data acquisition systems, power supplies, and safety systems Build, maintain, and repair electromechanical test systems, keeping lab test infrastructure highly available, in partnership with hardware, software, and production teams Develop test stand procedures and training manuals, and automate test systems to impro

- **Id**: 4232847
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-drone-test-and-simulation-hardware-development-engineer-prime-air>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: junior
- **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**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T10:43:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T10:43:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4100
- **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**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4651
- **Ghost share**: 0.001
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 96600
- **Max**: 160000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 160000

## Technologies

- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no
- **CATIA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T10:43:01Z

## 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**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T13:02:56Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 160000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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