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Prime Air is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to own the certification requirements and the certification plan for the MK30 unmanned aircraft system. You will author the plan that tells regulators how we intend to show our design is safe, and you will negotiate the means of compliance that make that plan binding. EASA is our first market. The plan you write and the agreements you reach there set the template every market after it inherits.
Your core technical problem is that one aircraft must satisfy many regulators. Each country and region brings its own airworthiness requirements, operational constraints, and expectations for evidence. You will maintain the single authoritative set of certification requirements across those jurisdictions, analyze where authorities diverge, and drive the resulting requirements into the design. Where a national requirement would otherwise force a redesign later, you will find it now and get it into the requirements baseline. The goal is a design that clears today's markets and does not have to be re-architected for the next ones or for the aircraft that follow MK30.
You will work as the engineering counterpart to the Senior Technical Program Manager on this team. The TPM owns the plans, schedules, compliance tracking, and leadership reporting. You own the technical content: what the requirements are, how we comply, what evidence proves it, and what we have committed to the authority. When a regulator questions an approach, you are the engineer who defends it.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the certification requirements baseline across every jurisdiction Prime Air operates in or plans to enter. Maintain it as one requirements set with jurisdiction attribution, not a document per country.
- Perform regulatory delta analysis across authorities (EASA, FAA, CASA, DGCA, CAA, JCAB, and others). Determine where a single design and a single evidence set satisfy multiple authorities, and where they genuinely cannot.
- Drive country- and region-specific requirements into system, software, and hardware requirements early enough to shape the design. Protect MK30 and future designs from late, market-driven rework.
- Lead novel certification approaches for the Prime Air UAS aligned to emerging regulations.
- Author and own the program certification plan. Keep it current as the certification basis, the design, and the authority's expectations evolve, and make it the document a regulator can read to understand our design approach without a briefing.
- Build the evidence reuse argument that carries approvals between authorities, including bilateral validation paths, so each new market is a delta rather than a new program.
- Write the compliance arguments and residual risk positions for open items, deferred defects, and partially satisfied objectives, and defend them directly with authority staff and designees.
- Partner with the regulatory administration team to monitor emerging regulation and rulemaking, assess the design and requirements impact, and fold accepted requirements into the baseline before they block a market entry.
- Build the mechanisms that make this scale: requirements and traceability structures that carry jurisdiction tagging, reusable compliance matrix patterns, and plan templates that a second aircraft program can adopt.
About the team
This is a new organization within Prime Air to own the technical execution of certification to support our world-wide expansion focus in 2027 and beyond.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 6+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- Experience with requirements management and traceability tools (e.g., Jama, DOORS, or equivalent) for maintaining bidirectional traceability across a full software lifecycle
- Experience with ARP4754, ARP4761, DO-160, DO-178, or equivalent.
- Experience negotiating means of compliance directly with a civil aviation authority or its designees
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of aviation regulatory compliance experience
- Experience participating in or leading technical collaborations and creating alignment across diverse groups (e.g., hardware engineering, software engineering, program management)
- Experience establishing a certification basis for a novel product where existing airworthiness standards did not cleanly apply
- Experience with SORA approvals, including SAIL-based assurance levels, alongside traditional type certification bases
- Experience structuring a requirements baseline so one design satisfies divergent regulatory frameworks across a product family
- Experience obtaining or supporting approvals from two or more aviation authorities, and reusing evidence between them under a bilateral agreement
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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.
LOCATION
USA, WA, Seattle
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $151,200.00 - $204,600.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Prime Air is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to own the certification requirements and the certification plan for the MK30 unmanned aircraft system. You will author the plan that tells regulators how we intend to show our design is safe, and you will negotiate the means of compliance that make that plan binding. EASA is our first market. The plan you write and the agreements you reach there set the template every market after it inherits.
Your core technical problem is that one aircraft must satisfy many regulators. Each country and region brings its own airworthiness requirements, operational constraints, and expectations for evidence. You will maintain the single authoritative set of certification requirements across those jurisdictions, analyze where authorities diverge, and drive the resulting requirements into the design. Where a national requirement would otherwise force a redesign later, you will find it now and get it into the requirements baseline. The goal is a design that clears today's markets and does not have to be re-architected for the next ones or for the aircraft that follow MK30.
You will work as the engineering counterpart to the Senior Technical Program Manager on this team. The TPM owns the plans, schedules, compliance tracking, and leadership reporting. You own the technical content: what the requirements are, how we comply, what evidence proves it, and what we have committed to the authority. When a regulator questions an approach, you are the engineer who defends it.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the certification requirements baseline across every jurisdiction Prime Air operates in or plans to enter. Maintain it as one requirements set with jurisdiction attribution, not a document per country.
- Perform regulatory delta analysis across authorities (EASA, FAA, CASA, DGCA, CAA, JCAB, and others). Determine where a single design and a single evidence set satisfy multiple authorities, and where they genuinely cannot.
- Drive country- and region-specific requirements into system, software, and hardware requirements early enough to shape the design. Protect MK30 and future designs from late, market-driven rework.
- Lead novel certification approaches for the Prime Air UAS aligned to emerging regulations.
- Author and own the program certification plan. Keep it current as the certification basis, the design, and the authority's expectations evolve, and make it the document a regulator can read to understand our design approach without a briefing.
- Build the evidence reuse argument that carries approvals between authorities, including bilateral validation paths, so each new market is a delta rather than a new program.
- Write the compliance arguments and residual risk positions for open items, deferred defects, and partially satisfied objectives, and defend them directly with authority staff and designees.
- Partner with the regulatory administration team to monitor emerging regulation and rulemaking, assess the design and requirements impact, and fold accepted requirements into the baseline before they block a market entry.
- Build the mechanisms that make this scale: requirements and traceability structures that carry jurisdiction tagging, reusable compliance matrix patterns, and plan templates that a second aircraft program can adopt.
About the team
This is a new organization within Prime Air to own the technical execution of certification to support our world-wide expansion focus in 2027 and beyond.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 6+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- Experience with requirements management and traceability tools (e.g., Jama, DOORS, or equivalent) for maintaining bidirectional traceability across a full software lifecycle
- Experience with ARP4754, ARP4761, DO-160, DO-178, or equivalent.
- Experience negotiating means of compliance directly with a civil aviation authority or its designees
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of aviation regulatory compliance experience
- Experience participating in or leading technical collaborations and creating alignment across diverse groups (e.g., hardware engineering, software engineering, program management)
- Experience establishing a certification basis for a novel product where existing airworthiness standards did not cleanly apply
- Experience with SORA approvals, including SAIL-based assurance levels, alongside traditional type certification bases
- Experience structuring a requirements baseline so one design satisfies divergent regulatory frameworks across a product family
- Experience obtaining or supporting approvals from two or more aviation authorities, and reusing evidence between them under a bilateral agreement
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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.
LOCATION
USA, WA, Seattle
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $151,200.00 - $204,600.00 USD annually
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Align your degree to the SOC code
Systems development engineering roles file under specific Standard Occupational Classification codes. Pull the O*NET profile for your target role and confirm your Chilean degree field maps directly to it before applying. Mismatches trigger employer hesitation before they ever reach the H-1B1 visa paperwork stage.
Verify prevailing wage before salary negotiations
Run the OFLC Wage Search for your target job title and the employer's metro area before you get an offer. If the posted salary falls below Level I or II, the employer's LCA will fail DOL certification and sponsorship collapses at the filing stage.
Target employers already filing LCAs for engineering roles
Use Migrate Mate to filter companies by verified H-1B1 Chile LCA filing history in systems and software engineering. Employers who have filed before understand the consulate-direct process and won't stall on sponsorship because the visa type is unfamiliar to their HR team.
Request a detailed offer letter before the DS-160
Your DS-160 nonimmigrant visa application requires specific employment details, including your exact title, start date, and work location. Ask your employer to confirm these in writing before you begin the form. Discrepancies between your offer letter and DS-160 responses are a common cause of consulate delays.
Confirm the employer will certify the LCA before you resign
The H-1B1 Chile process requires DOL to certify your Labor Condition Application before your consulate appointment. Ask your prospective employer whether their legal team has confirmed the LCA timeline. Don't give notice at your current job until LCA certification is in hand.
Get your Chilean credentials evaluated for U.S. equivalency
Chilean engineering degrees typically run five years, but U.S. consular officers assess them against a four-year U.S. bachelor's standard. A credential evaluation from a NACES-member organization that explicitly confirms bachelor's-level equivalency removes one of the most common specialty occupation objections at the interview.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Systems Development Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation under the H-1B1 Chile visa?
Yes. Systems development engineering requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field, which meets the specialty occupation definition for H-1B1 Chile purposes. The consular officer will assess whether your specific degree field aligns with your job duties, so the closer that match, the stronger your case.
How does the H-1B1 Chile visa differ from the H-1B for Systems Development Engineer roles?
The H-1B1 Chile visa skips the H-1B lottery entirely and processes directly at the consulate. The annual cap of 1,400 has never been exhausted, so there's no waiting for a selection result. The trade-off is that H-1B visa1 Chile does not authorize dual intent, meaning you can't simultaneously pursue a green card while on this status without careful planning.
Which employers are most likely to sponsor the H-1B1 Chile visa for engineering roles?
Migrate Mate filters job listings by verified H-1B1 Chile LCA filing history, so you can identify companies that have already sponsored Chilean engineers rather than cold-applying and hoping HR is familiar with the visa type. Employers in cloud infrastructure, software platforms, and enterprise systems tend to have the most active filing history for systems development roles.
Can I start working in the U.S. while my H-1B1 Chile application is pending?
No. The H-1B1 Chile visa is processed at the consulate abroad, not through a USCIS change-of-status petition. You must receive your visa stamp before entering the U.S. to begin work. There is no cap-gap or receipt-notice authorization period equivalent available under this visa category.
How long does H-1B1 Chile visa sponsorship take for a Systems Development Engineer offer?
Once your employer certifies the Labor Condition Application with DOL and you complete the DS-160, most consulates in Chile schedule H-1B1 visa interviews within a few weeks. Total time from signed offer to visa stamp typically runs four to eight weeks for straightforward cases, though administrative processing can extend that window if additional review is triggered.