# Sr. Electrical Engineer, Prime Air Perception

We are hiring an Electrical Engineer responsible for owning the design, development, and verification of the Prime Air Drone Perception subsystem and ground based package loading infrastructure. This candidate will own power and signal architecture for radar and cameras, along with development of new ground based hardware that interfaces directly with the drone. As the technical focal point for your projects, you will provide technical leadership, make key design decisions, and drive engineering excellence. 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). If you are seeking an iterative environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide bene

- **Id**: 4303134
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-sr-electrical-engineer-prime-air-perception-2>
- **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**: 7
- **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**: 5005
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), 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**: 159200
- **Max**: 215300
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 215300

## Technologies

- **Xilinx Vivado** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Perl** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## 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**: 215300
- **Is top pay**: yes

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