Human Factors Design Engineer

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$46.00/hr - $73.00/hr

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A Day in the Life:

Located in the Seaport District in Boston, MA as a Human Factors Design Engineer, you will help to execute human factors efforts within the Systems team within the Surgical OU, working in a fast-paced environment with a team of human factors engineers. This position is on an exciting, challenging, and fast-paced project. Your focus will be on evaluating new designs for fit with surgeons' and OR staff's expectations and abilities, with a particular eye towards safety and ease of use. Specifically, this position will be responsible for administering usability testing, completion of risk analysis for use-related issues, and other human factors program activities that support documentation for the design history file.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Applies human centered principles, methodologies, and technologies to the design of human-machine systems and products.
• Develops and implements research methodologies and both qualitative and quantitative analysis plans to test and evaluate new concepts and developmental prototypes used in all phases of products development and processes.
• Designs and executes tests to simulate product use for the purposes of user need investigation, concept exploration/selection/refinement, requirements development, use-related risk identification and formal usability validation with intended users with design engineers to establish system design, operating, and training requirements and to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces and overall user experience.
• Identifies and analyzes technological problems or risks, performs theoretical human factors investigations, and develops and implements research and analysis plans to inform the design direction of new product development.

Top 3 technical skills that are required for the role:

1. Experience in Human Factors in a regulated industry

2. Study Execution and Moderation Experience

3. Usability Risk Analysis

Education Required:

Years' Experience Required:

• At least 2 years in a regulated human factors role

• Seniority level Associate

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering, Manufacturing, and Product Management
• Industries Medical Equipment Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, and Biotechnology Research

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