Vehicle HW Dev & Prototyping Manager, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test
Company websiteamazon.com (Amazon, opens in new tab)
Base salary $175,100 to $236,900
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Seattle, WA
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- LocationSeattle, WA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
About this job
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
- Experience with air vehicle configuration and subsystem designs for eVTOL
- Experience with electric vehicle powertrain subsystems (batteries, motors, etc.)
- Experience with mechanical mechanisms or robotics systems design
- Experience in designing and building test systems, infrastructure, hardware, and/or electronics
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 175,100.00 - 236,900.00 USD annually
Source: Amazon · View original posting (opens in new tab)
How this pay compares
Base floor $175,100. The employer's range is $61,800 wide, 35% of the floor. First observed today.
How Amazon pays
540 of Amazon's 4,078 live roles on this site list a higher base floor and 3,519 list a lower one. Across them the median floor is $143,700; the middle half runs from $131,500 to $159,300.
Base floors of Amazon's 4,078 live roles
Table
| Floor band | Share | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 17.5% | 712 |
| $125K to $150K | 46.4% | 1,893 |
| $150K to $175K | 22.4% | 913 |
| $175K to $200K | 11.5% | 468 |
| $200K to $225K | 1.8% | 75 |
| $225K to $250K | 0.2% | 7 |
| $250K to $275K | 0.2% | 9 |
| $275K and up | <0.1% | 1 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Employer base floor distribution
- Formula
- count of the employer's open roles in each $25K band of published base floor / its open roles
- Denominator
- 4,078 open public roles at this employer
- Sample size
- 4078
- Hidden when
- this employer has fewer than 5 roles
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- current
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
This listingVehicle HW Dev & Prototyping Manager, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test$175,100 to $236,900
Data Scientist II - AMZ10564077$175,040 to $212,800
Manager III, SecEng, AppSec AI$175,100 to $236,900
Manager, Hardware Development - GPU/Accelerator, Annapurna ML Trainium$175,100 to $236,900
Security Engineering Manager, Leo Security$175,100 to $236,900
Security Engineering Manager, Stores AppSec$175,100 to $236,900
Security Engineering Manager, Stores Org Mobile Security$175,100 to $236,900
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Vehicle HW Dev & Prototyping Manager, Prime Air Vehicle Design, Modelling, & Test (this listing) | $175,100 - $236,900 |
| Data Scientist II - AMZ10564077 | $175,040 - $212,800 |
| Manager III, SecEng, AppSec AI | $175,100 - $236,900 |
| Manager, Hardware Development - GPU/Accelerator, Annapurna ML Trainium | $175,100 - $236,900 |
| Security Engineering Manager, Leo Security | $175,100 - $236,900 |
| Security Engineering Manager, Stores AppSec | $175,100 - $236,900 |
| Security Engineering Manager, Stores Org Mobile Security | $175,100 - $236,900 |
Observed changes
No changes to the pay or listing since we first observed this role on Nov 9, 2026 (today).
- First observed on the employer's board, already publishing a qualifying base salary
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-09
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: US, WA, Seattle
USA, WA, Seattle - 175,100.00 - 236,900.00 USD annually
- Method
- Employer text, read with fixed rules and re-verified
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The pay passage appears in the employer's own job text. Fixed, deterministic rules located it, and the passage below was checked against the stored copy of the posting.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.