Senior Human Factors Engineer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The position of Sr. Human Factors Engineer is within our Infectious Disease business unit located in San Diego, California.  This is an in-office role on site.

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

This role designs and execute studies that address both user behavior and attitudes, using the right methodology for the right questions for our in-home products. With supervision, coordinates day-to-day human factors and usability improvement plans and concepts for medium sized projects. In addition, supports efforts on larger projects/initiatives, helps direct external usability design resources, and reports progress on various project activities.

What You'll Work On:

• Act as a thought leader in domain of research, while advocating for people who use our products

• Design and execute studies that address both user behavior and attitudes, using the right methodology for the right questions

• Generate insights that shape how product teams think about medium and long-term product strategy

• Contributes to customer, competitive, and software industry research to identify and prioritize usability improvement
   possibilities.

• Contributes to the creation of usability related processes and improvements

• Collaborates with team members on risks and resolution of issues to program leadership team.

• Creates detailed usability improvement concepts. Works within internal departments, and project teams to create and
   manage usability improvement activities.

• Using knowledge of customer needs, company technology, business plans, as well as market research and financial tools
   such as ROI, contributes to usability improvement projects.

• Communicates improvement plans, concepts and status across Marketing, development staff, and senior management.

• Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors,
   and vendors.

• Work cross-functionally with design, product management, data science, content strategy, engineering, and marketing

• Provide human factors support to R&D teams for product development.

• Responsible for directing and coordinating all activities necessary to complete human factors engineering projects. Activities include, but are not limited to:

  • Conducting ethnographic user research to identify user needs

  • Translating user needs to requirements and product design concepts