Human Factors Engineer (100% Remote)

***Please note that our customer is currently not considering applicants from the following locations: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.***

Our Customer is a corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery. Founded in 1995, their goal was to create innovative, robotic-assisted systems that help empower doctors and hospitals to make surgery less invasive than an open approach. Working with the top medical professionals, they continue to develop new, minimally invasive surgical platforms and future diagnostic tools to help solve complex healthcare challenges around the world.

We are seeking a Human Factors Engineer on a contract basis to support our Customer's business needs. This role is 100% remote.

The Human Factors Engineer has primary responsibility for conducting research to gain a deep understanding of users, uses, and use environments; performing task analysis; analyzing and characterizing use-related risks; and conducting iterative formative evaluations and final usability validation of products prior to launch.

Responsibilities:

• Collect and synthesize user interaction data through interviews, simulations, task analysis, and other research methods
• Present user research and usability testing findings to product development teams
• Provide user interface design guidance, recommendations, and feedback throughout product development
• Analyze customer complaints to identify usability-related issues in released products
• Support the design, execution, and reporting of usability and human factors studies throughout the product development lifecycle
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain usability risk analyses and user interface requirements
• Maintain traceability between use-related risks, mitigations, and validation test cases
• Stay current with medical device human factors regulations and industry best practices

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Factors Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science with an HCI emphasis, Human-Centered Design, or a related field
• 5+ years of Human Factors experience in an industry setting
• Strong knowledge of user-centered design and usability engineering principles
• Experience conducting user research, interviews, simulations, task analysis, and usability testing
• Ability to analyze and synthesize large amounts of research data into actionable insights
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and collaboration skills
• Ability to work effectively with engineering, product management, clinical engineering, regulatory, and other cross-functional teams
• Ability to interact professionally with customers
• Strong empathy and user-centered mindset
• Ability to travel domestically up to 25%

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the medical device industry or another regulated industry
• Knowledge of IEC 62366, AAMI HE75, FDA Human Factors and Usability Engineering guidance for medical devices

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements). Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard

to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.