# Hardware Development Engineer, Test and Simulation Hardware, Prime Air, Drone Delivery

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 using CAD software, applying mechanical design principles to create solutions that meet defined specifications and manufacturing requirements. - Triage and troubleshoot test systems and hardware failures to identify root cause, using data acquisition systems, power supplies, and safety systems to resolve issues efficiently. - Build, maintain, and repair electromechanical test systems, ensuring high availability of test infrastructure across the lab environment

- **Id**: 3781155
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-hardware-development-engineer-test-and-simulation-hardware-prime-air-drone-delivery>
- **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**: 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T02:19:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4388
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drones & UAVs, Robotics AI, Logistics & Warehouse Robotics, Video Production

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4621
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.891
- **Repost share**: 0.002
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

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

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T00:50:09Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 16,768 · green card filings: 56; Filings 12m: 16768; Filings prev 12m: 16262; Green card filings 12m: 56

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Pay

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

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