Amazon is recruiting a drone test pilot

When Amazon announced its Prime Air delivery service right before last year's Black Friday, everyone wrote it off as a well-timed publicity stunt. But it would appear that Amazon is moving ahead to some extent with the idea, and it's now looking for a test pilot to rush that Taylor Swift CD to you post-haste.

If you're an experienced quadcopter hobbyist, though, you might be out of luck: Amazon's looking specifically for someone with five year's flight test experience (military or civil) and an engineering degree.

There's one position up for grabs at Amazon HQ in Seattle, and one in Cambridge, UK. There's also a job as a flight safety manager — anyone who's got an idea for stopping irritating shooters playing target practice with drones could probably apply for that one.

Either way, the technical hurdles probably aren't the biggest problems facing Amazon. Trying to create the infrastructure to support a nationwide drone delivery service, not to mention getting it through the FCC, are undoubtedly the major problems for Amazon right now.