Senior Engineer, Human Factors

Overview

Apply human factors engineering principles to the design, development, and evaluation of medical products while working with cross-functional program teams. With minimal guidance, plan, schedule, and lead human factors engineering activities for innovating new and improving existing medical products with product stakeholders (customers, marketing, and engineering).

What you'll do

• Develop and communicate project scope, plans, tasks and deliverables with program teams and manage time to meet project deadlines.
• Report pertinent information at key milestones through clear, concise oral and written communications.
• Perform human factors/usability assessments for hardware, software, labeling, and disposable products by applying principles in ergonomics, human machine interface, anthropometrics, data analysis, etc.
• In partnership with other Research & Development teams, develop product prototypes for user interface evaluation and validation.
• Actively participate in project teams to ensure sound human factors principles are considered and implemented.
• Participate / Organize / Drive Usability studies with customers including Formative & Summative assessments.
• Draw conclusions and make recommendations based on a variety of technical inputs.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Human Factors Engineering (HFE) or a related discipline, such as Industrial Engineering, Biomechanical Engineering, Human-Computer Interface (HCI), or Applied Psychology.
• A minimum 5 years of working experience in human factors.
• Proven experience in applying human factors techniques on programs across product lifecycle (user research, use-related risk analysis, formative & summative product evaluation, etc.).
• Proven experience in the effective implementation of Human Factors Engineering (HFE) requirements/standards.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills in written and verbal form.
• Demonstrated ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical inputs from multiple and varied functions (Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, etc.).
• Demonstrated understanding of user centered design, heuristic evaluations, design of experiments, and qualitative data analysis.
• Experience in quality management systems, such as Trackwise, JIRA, etc.

Nice to have

• A master's degree in a related discipline.