Staff Engineer, Human Factors

embecta is one of the largest pure-play diabetes care companies in the world, leveraging its nearly 100-year legacy in insulin delivery to empower people with diabetes to live their best life through innovative solutions, partnerships and the passion of approximately 2,000 employees around the globe. For more information, visit embecta.com or follow our social channels on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. 

Human Factors Engineers within Embecta’s new product development organization work on connected medical devices that will transform the health of people living with diabetes. Our mission is to ensure that innovative technology and user experience combine into improved health outcomes.  

This Human Factors Engineering role will report to the Senior Manager of Human Factors Engineering & User Experience Design and represents the team on cross functional projects as the Human Factors Engineering subject matter expert.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Generative Research & Front-End Innovation:  

• Lead generative human factors research efforts including but not limited to observational research, contextual inquiries, and ethnography
• Distill research findings into themes and insights which drive user needs, design principles, and product requirements
• Create effective user profiles, characterize use environments, map workflows, perform task analyses, and draft use cases to help drive system designs which are optimized for human performance
• Draft usability focused requirements and specifications based on the physical, cognitive, and sensory capabilities of intended user groups, including the influence of the intended use environment on user capabilities
• Conduct competitive usability assessments and comparative heuristic analyses of early innovation concepts
• Provide ergonomic, anthropometric, and behavioral data to peers within cross functional development teams seekin