Manager High Fidelity Modeling, Prime Air
Amazon.com - Seattle, WA
posted 4 days ago
About the position
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization. We're working on the future. If you are seeking an iterative fast-paced environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve extreme-scale real world delivery challenges, and provide visible benefit to end-users, this is your opportunity. Come work on the Amazon Prime Air team. We're looking for outstanding scientists and engineers who combine superb technical, research and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability architect complex hardware, software, embedded, mobile and mission-critical systems to ensure they can be found compliant to DO-178C. This person must be comfortable working with a team of top-notch software, hardware and applied science Engineers. We're looking for people who innovate and love solving hard problems. You will work hard, have fun, and of course, make history!
Responsibilities
- Lead a group of engineers and scientists that provide computational fluid dynamics modeling.
- Develop aerodynamic and other surrogate models used in flight simulation of the Prime Air drones.
Requirements
- 7+ years experience in CFD or flight simulation database generation and validation.
- BSc/MSc in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, or equivalent.
- Demonstrated success in communicating with technical teams to collect requirements, describe product features and technical designs, and driving implementation across multiple teams.
- Firm understanding of software design principles.
Nice-to-haves
- 10+ years experience in CFD or flight simulation database generation and validation.
- PhD in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, or equivalent.
- Experience with machine learning and gaussian process regression techniques.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
