Amazon Electrical Hardware Development Engineer Prime Amazon 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

506133554

Prime Air is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to design and develop power electronics hardware and related electrical power systems for Prime Air Drones. This includes, battery chargers, DC-DC converters, DC-AC inverters, Motor Controllers and power distribution systems. In this role you will be working with our Seattle based team to help to deploy new hardware and electrical power systems for Prime Air Drones. You will work with internal and external vendors to support hardware development, manufacturing and test. You will also be supporting other ongoing development and testing efforts for the Drone.Key job responsibilities-Designs, develops, and tests power electronics hardware and analog/digital devices components such as inverters, battery chargers, DC-DC converts and protection circuitry.
-Design circuits, perform electrical analyses, select components, create electrical schematics and perform/support PCB layout.
-Support engineering trades, estimates and interact with suppliers/partners on critical components and develop hardware from concept to mass production
-Support developing hardware and component level requirements/specifications
-Increase the engineering rigor behind designs, verification, and documentation.
-Simulate circuits and key component.
-Test prototype hardware and systems in labs
Seattle, WA, USA

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related fields
- 2+ years of charger and Battery Management System hardware design, validation of components, subsystems and systems experience, experience developing power electronics
- Understanding of power semiconductor switches and diodes, and their characteristics
- Understanding of devices built upon various materials such as Si, SiC, and GaN
- Experience designing and analyzing inverter and converter circuits including gate drivers
- Knowledge and experience with embedded control of power electronic circuits
- Skilled working in lab environment with high voltages and currents
- Experience using software tools such as Spice, PLECS, Mathcad, Ansys Simplorer, and Matlab
- Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment
- Experience leading PCBA Board bring-Up and validation testing
- Proficient with PCB design tools (Altium preferred)
- Experience with CAD software (CATIA preferred)
- Experience in requirements development and documentation
- Experience in aerospace or automotive industry
- Experience with written and Verbal communication in aerospace and/or automotive industry settings

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience with hardware/software integration and real-time systems
- Master's Degree or other advanced degree in Electrical Engineering
- Experience working with commercial standards (DO-254, DO-160G, DO-178)
- Experience with EMI/EMC filter design for power electronics products
- Experience developing aviation power electronic hardware
- Experience with bidirectional power conversion
- Knowledge or experience using FEA simulation tool such as Ansys Maxwell/Q3D or equivalent
- Knowledge or experience with dual active bridge DC/DC modeling and control
- Proficiency in Python, Matlab, or equivalent scripting languages