Lead Engineer, Data Collection, Prime Air - Data for Autonomous Aircraft (DA2)

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Adoption assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Surrogacy assistance: Not verified

Mental health support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Relocation assistance

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Childcare support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Learning budget

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Verification

Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

$151K-$205K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

53% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

Shift type

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

Application

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Deadline

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About this role

Lead Engineer, Data Collection, Prime Air - Data for Autonomous Aircraft (DA2) Seattle, Washington, USA Prime Air is Amazon's drone delivery program, working to safely deliver packages to customers in under an hour. The Data for Autonomous Aircraft (DA2) team within Prime Air designs, develops, and operates prototype platforms that provide high-quality data to develop and validate features for commercial autonomous flight operations. We are seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to serve as the senior technical authority for the DA2 engineering team. This role requires a versatile engineer who can work fluidly across engineering domains - software, electrical, hardware, mechanical, and systems integration - with particular depth in hardware-software integration for complex sensor payloads. Our greatest technical challenges lie at the intersection of embedded software and deployed hardware: ensuring our software performs reliably on the multi-sensor payloads we design, build, and fly in real-world environments. The ideal candidate brings at least 10 years of engineering experience, preferably in aerospace, robotics, or autonomous systems, and combines deep technical expertise with the ability to lead through ambiguity. You must have an excellent understanding of software development best practices, modern development flows (CI/CD, version control, automated testing), and how to integrate AI tools and techniques into engineering workflows to accelerate development velocity and improve quality. You will be the engineering team's senior technical voice - setting the bar for quality, driving root cause resolution of the most complex system defects, and charting the technical roadmap that enables DA2 to deliver on Prime Air's

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