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Senior Human Factors Engineer
MedtronicUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Jan 2025
💰 $171,600/yr
About the role
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 31 Jan 2025
Careers that Change Lives – Come for a job, stay for a career:
As senior human factors engineer, you will work closely with marketing, engineers, and clinical to ensure a user centric approach is used in defining and developing products. You will also collaborate with quality and regulatory to create the usability documentation required for regulatory submissions. You will work independently or under the general direction of a lead engineer and/or project manager. This role may be assigned to any of the different products within endoscopy OU.
Location: Lafayette, CO
#MDTsurgicaljobs #MDTsurgicalengineering
Operating Unit
The Endoscopy Operating Unit has created a business out of disrupting the status quo in the detection, prevention, and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers and chronic diseases. We’ve done this by commercializing transformational technologies that improve patient management and standards of care, while increasing access to our innovations across the globe.
Careers that Change Lives
Our space, the medical device and healthcare industry, is rapidly changing. It always has been that way. With remote monitoring, wearables, robotics, AR/VR, telemedicine, and much more, agility and responsiveness are key to our success. Experience what it’s like to work at a company with an exciting product pipeline full of patented inventions driving innovation in the healthcare space.
A Day in the Life
• Represent human factors on a project core team on a more than one project at a time
• Plan and conduct task analysis and user research studies for new product/ system/sub-system concepts
• Compile, organize and synthesize results of field observations, surveys and usability test results into internal communications and presentations for product teams and leadership
• Contribute to workflow and user interface designs
• Write usability engineering documents such as task analysis, usability risk analysis, usability requirements, study protocol and test reports in a timely manner
• Analyze data to identify root causes of observed use errors
• Design, execute and report on usability evaluations and tests at various stages of product development from concept exploration to formal validation testing required by US/OUS regulatory agencies
• Prepare and support usability assessment documentation for US/OUS regulatory submissions.
• Manage usability engineering activities within projects and provide schedules and status updates to project team
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in human Factors, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Design or a related field with 4+ years of experience; MS or higher with 3+ years of experience in medical device development
• Strong understanding of usability standards (IEC 62366, ANSI HE75, FDA Human Factors Guidance)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Experience working with devices involving both software and hardware preferred
• Experience working through all phases of new product development cycle preferred
Travel: up to 25%
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Sr. Human Factors Engineer – EndoscopyCareers that Change Lives – Come for a job, stay for a career:
As senior human factors engineer, you will work closely with marketing, engineers, and clinical to ensure a user centric approach is used in defining and developing products. You will also collaborate with quality and regulatory to create the usability documentation required for regulatory submissions. You will work independently or under the general direction of a lead engineer and/or project manager. This role may be assigned to any of the different products within endoscopy OU.
Location: Lafayette, CO
#MDTsurgicaljobs #MDTsurgicalengineering
Operating Unit
The Endoscopy Operating Unit has created a business out of disrupting the status quo in the detection, prevention, and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers and chronic diseases. We’ve done this by commercializing transformational technologies that improve patient management and standards of care, while increasing access to our innovations across the globe.
Careers that Change Lives
Our space, the medical device and healthcare industry, is rapidly changing. It always has been that way. With remote monitoring, wearables, robotics, AR/VR, telemedicine, and much more, agility and responsiveness are key to our success. Experience what it’s like to work at a company with an exciting product pipeline full of patented inventions driving innovation in the healthcare space.
A Day in the Life
• Represent human factors on a project core team on a more than one project at a time
• Plan and conduct task analysis and user research studies for new product/ system/sub-system concepts
• Compile, organize and synthesize results of field observations, surveys and usability test results into internal communications and presentations for product teams and leadership
• Contribute to workflow and user interface designs
• Write usability engineering documents such as task analysis, usability risk analysis, usability requirements, study protocol and test reports in a timely manner
• Analyze data to identify root causes of observed use errors
• Design, execute and report on usability evaluations and tests at various stages of product development from concept exploration to formal validation testing required by US/OUS regulatory agencies
• Prepare and support usability assessment documentation for US/OUS regulatory submissions.
• Manage usability engineering activities within projects and provide schedules and status updates to project team
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in human Factors, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Design or a related field with 4+ years of experience; MS or higher with 3+ years of experience in medical device development
• Strong understanding of usability standards (IEC 62366, ANSI HE75, FDA Human Factors Guidance)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Experience working with devices involving both software and hardware preferred
• Experience working through all phases of new product development cycle preferred
Travel: up to 25%
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.
TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assign
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