Hardware Development Engineer, Test and Simulation Hardware, Prime Air, Drone Delivery
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Job overview
The Hardware Development Engineer designs and models hardware components and test fixtures, and builds, maintains, and troubleshoots electromechanical test systems supporting hardware production. The role works across hardware, software, and production teams to diagnose failures, improve test-system reliability, and increase lab operational efficiency. It also develops operating procedures and training manuals and automates test systems.
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Description
Do you enjoy getting hands-on with complex electromechanical systems and keeping critical test infrastructure running at peak performance? As a Hardware Development Engineer at Amazon, you will combine 3D modeling and mechanical design with the build, maintenance, and troubleshooting of test systems that support hardware production. Working across hardware, software, and production teams, you will diagnose failures, identify root causes, and drive improvements that increase test system reliability and lab operational efficiency. This is a role where your design and engineering skills directly enable the teams around you to ship quality products.
Key job responsibilities
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Design and model hardware components and test fixtures using CAD software, applying mechanical design principles to create solutions that meet defined specifications and manufacturing requirements.
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Triage and troubleshoot test systems and hardware failures to identify root cause, using data acquisition systems, power supplies, and safety systems to resolve issues efficiently.
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Build, maintain, and repair electromechanical test systems, ensuring high availability of test infrastructure across the lab environment.
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Collaborate with hardware, software, and production teams to align on test system requirements and keep shared infrastructure operating reliably.
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Develop test stand operational procedures and training manuals, and automate test systems to drive continuous improvement in reliability, lab safety, and operational efficiency.
A day in the life
You will start your day checking the status of test systems across the lab, prioritizing any failures that need immediate attention. From there, you might open CAD to refine a 3D model for a test fixture, head to the floor to repair an electromechanical assembly. Afternoons could involve reviewing mechanical designs with peers, updating documentation for a modified test stand, or connecting with hardware and software engineers to troubleshoot cross-system issues and plan upcoming infrastructure needs.
About the team
Our team keeps the test infrastructure running that Amazon's hardware teams depend on to validate and ship products. We own the build-out, maintenance, and continuous improvement of lab systems, partnering closely with hardware, software, and production groups. We value hands-on problem-solving, a commitment to safety, and a collaborative approach to keeping our lab environment reliable and efficient. If you are curious and motivated to improve the systems around you, this is a great place to grow your career at Amazon.
Basic Qualifications
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2+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
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Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent
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Knowledge of SolidWorks or similar CAD experience and understanding of best practices for part design, and advanced assemblies
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in system-level debugging
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Experience with CATIA 3D modelling tool
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 - 96,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 3,103 open Test Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$97–160K/yr
- Washington median$110–160K/yr112 salary ranges
- US median$102–161K/yr2,075 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $128K, is 7% below the Washington median midpoint ($139K) — in the middle half of Test Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 146 open Test Engineer jobs in Washington and 3,103 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Test Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,603 postings).
- Education
- 1,685 of the 3,103 open Test Engineer jobs (54%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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