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 (PA) on the About Amazon blog (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-mk30-photos).

The PA team is looking for a strong technical and business leader to lead our Vehicle Software and Simulation teams. In this role, you play a critical role in defining the technical vision and roadmap for PA to meet its goal of delivering millions of packages to customers within 30 minutes. To do this, you work closely and strongly influence leaders from product, finance, regulatory and operational leaders within PA and across Amazon.


Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will be responsible for the core software platform for the drone including low-level software/firmware, middleware and applications. You will also be responsible for PA’s simulation technology that is critical for testing and validating our systems before production launches. Your teams collaborate with top-notch research scientists and hardware engineers to deliver high quality, aerospace grade production code.

The ideal candidate is passionate and experienced in both aerospace and robotics software. You have prior experience managing a multi-functional engineering org, including development managers, software engineers and program managers. You should have proven analytical, strategic, technical and program management success as well as the ability to recruit and develop high-caliber leaders and individuals. This role represents significant intellectual, technical and innovation challenges with large opportunity for business impact.