Harness Development Engineer, Prime Air System Integration

Amazon • Seattle, WA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring for an Electrical Engineer responsible for ensuring electrical integrity across aircraft interconnected systems, with a primary focus on harnessing and a secondary support for electromechanical assemblies and test systems. This candidate will own the development, validation, and enforcement of harness design standards to mitigate issues such as noise, crosstalk, and unintended behavior.

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 benefits to customers, Prime Air is the place for you.

Come work on the Amazon Prime Air Team!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or a relevant engineering discipline
• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans, functional test procedures, and root cause investigations
• Experience with setup, control and automation of lab equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, electronic loads, power supplies, network analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, etc.
• 3+ years of experience in design or systems architecture role working with wire harnesses and related test systems.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, engineering technology or equivalent
• Experience in aircraft or high-reliability electronics environments
• Experience with harness design and testing methods (DWV, IR, NEXT, FEXT, TDR, VSWR, etc.) for complex systems
• Experience with ECAD software KiCad, Altium, Expedition, and/or Mentor Graphics
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-461, IPC/WHMA-A-620, or similar EMI and harnessing standards
• Strong cross-functional communication skills with avionics, systems, test, and harness manufacturing teams

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis and mitigation strategies for signal degradation, transient susceptibility, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in harnesses and electromechanical systems.
• Define and validate grounding schemes (single-point, multi-point, hybrid) for test systems and shielding approaches for sensitive signal lines.
• Specify technical requirements for: Shielded vs unshielded cable use, Twisted pair implementation, Low speed, high speed, and RF signals, Separation and routing guidelines for mixed-signal harnessing.
• Partner with flight and test engineering teams during early design phases to influence harness design and interconnects to ensure electrical signal integrity.
• Serve as the go-to owner for root cause analysis (RCA) of harness anomalies relating to electrical integrity, test harness and verification anomalies, and electromechanical test system.
• Develop interface control documents (ICDs), block interconnect diagrams (BIDs), electrical schematics, test harnessing specifications, and a signal integrity standards library.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior