Vehicle HW Dev & Prototyping Manager, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test

• Our Prime Air Drone Vehicle Design, Modelling, and Test team is looking for a Vehicle Hardware Development and Prototyping Manager to help us rapidly configure, design, analyze, prototype, and test innovative

Description

• Our Prime Air Drone Vehicle Design, Modelling, and Test team is looking for a Vehicle Hardware Development and Prototyping Manager to help us rapidly configure, design, analyze, prototype, and test innovative drone vehicles and vehicle subsystems. You’ll be responsible for leading a cross-functional team that designs clean sheet conceptual level vehicle configurations and layouts that integrate all subsystems and meet vehicle level requirements. Your team will design internal subsystems, major structural elements, and key mechanisms/electrical components. 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 custom 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 Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test organization includes a broad set of 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, Subsystem Hardware Development, and Rapid Prototyping.

Basic Qualifications

• - Bachelor's degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering or equivalent - 3+ years of experience in people management - 5+ years of experience in vehicle configuration and/or associated subsystem design and integration - Vehicle level design intuition and ability to operate & analyze at the system-of-systems level - Experience in leading teams that rapidly design, develop, and prototype various hardware components and subsystems

Preferred Qualifications