Simulation & Modeling Research Scientist, Prime Air Flight Sciences High Fidelity Methods

Job Description:

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization.

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!

Our Prime Air Drone Flight Sciences High Fidelity Methods (HFM) team is looking for an outstanding research scientist (RS) to develop and verify our drone systems models and flight physics models.
Our models are the backbone of every flight simulation performed within Prime Air and are a critical input to business decisions, aircraft design, system verification, and aircraft certification.

The HFM team’s products enable the prediction of vehicle performance metrics including range, maneuverability, tracking error, and aircraft stability. They help us understand how vehicle design and operational decisions impact business metrics like customer reachability. They are a crucial element in the design of flight control algorithms and software testing. The accuracy and reliability of these models are critical to the success of Prime Air.

Key job responsibilities
The person in this role is responsible for owning the development, deployment, verification, and maintenance of simulation models from end-to-end. This includes the initial gathering of the downstream customer needs, identifying the most suitable modelling approach and level of fidelity, coordinating the generation of input data, training models, developing and maintaining software interfaces, and verifying the model accuracy.

This person will also be responsible for determining the most suitable modeling approach for a given physical phenomena. They will need to have a basic understanding of the types of physics and systems to be modelled including electric powertrain components, guidance and navigation system (GNS) sensors, vehicle aerodynamics, propeller performance, multibody dynamics, and atmosphere physics.
They will be responsible for designing experiments for generating data used to create and verify models. They will be responsible for validating the models by leveraging uncertainty quantification and statistical analyses.

Job Requirements:

- Bachelors Degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, physics and 5+ years experience or equivalent
- Experience with flight vehicle design, simulation, development, and verification & validation (V&V)
- Proficient with at least one modern programming language (e.g. C++, Python, Java, VBA)- Master's or PHD in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, physics or equivalent
- 3+ years experience in air vehicle aerodynamic design, analysis, and testing (preferably electric propulsion vehicles)
- Experience with flight test planning, instrumentation and data reduction techniques
- Experience with high-fidelity aerodynamics prediction methods including wind tunnel testing, and computation fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Knowledgeable about fixed-wing and/or rotorcraft flight physics
- Experience with uncertainty quantification in the context of computational models
- Experience with Gaussian Process (GP) Regression
- Experience with regulatory and certification processes pertaining to flight performance

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic spanets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic spanet up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic spanet. Pay is based on a number of factors including spanet location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Job Ident #: 2819790

Company Details

Amazon Prime Air

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Seattle, Washington . USA
www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/airplanes

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Job Info

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Amazon Prime Air

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Seattle, Washington . USA
www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/airplanes