We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 28 Jul 2025

 

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

Senior Human Factors Engineer

Careers that Change Lives

We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

The Cardiac and Vascular Group brings all of our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe.
Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

We are looking for a Human Factors Engineer that is passionate about user-centered design and able to design and develop next-generation products by integrating the Voice of the Customer into our future pipeline of cardiac products and therapies. You’ll work in our multi-disciplinary team to understand product requirements, identify user needs through research, communicate a persuasive vision, create with cross-functional team members, and deliver a world class design solution.

This position is remote within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) operating unit. This role may require less than 20% travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

A Day in the Life

In general, the following responsibilities apply to the Senior Human Factors Engineer role.  This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Applies human performance principles, methodologies, and technologies to the design of human-machine systems and products in the healthcare space.
• Develops and implements research methodologies and statistical analysis plans to test and evaluate developmental prototypes used in all phases of products development and processes.
• Designs and executes tests to simulate product use for the purposes of concept selection/refinement, requirements development, use-related risk identification and formal usability validation with intended users.
• Interfaces with design engineers to establish system design, operating, and training requirements and to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
• Identifies and analyzes technological problems or risks, performs theoretical human factors investigations, and develops and implements research and analysis plans.
• Product lifecycle support including customer needs identification, user profiles, task analysis, user interface design, usability testing, hazard analysis, design validation, and post-launch outcomes analysis
• Leading Human Factors and User Experience activities and small teams to optimize the customer’s experience using our cardiac and vascular products.

Specialized Knowledge or Skills Required:

• Experience designing and evaluating software and hardware products using principles of Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and other Human Factors experts.

Qualifications

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, or a technical discipline
• Minimum of 4 years of technical work experience in Engineering, Science, or advanced degree in Engineering, Science with 2 years of technical experience.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of the application various human factors/usability engineering principles and tools in the design, development, and evaluation of hardware and software products brought to market.
• Ability to integrate creative skills with innovative problem-solving techniques to develop design concepts.
• Experience creating Interactive Graphical prototypes (wireframe) using Visio, Axure and/or Photoshop.
• Experience designing and validating Software Human Computer Interfaces for a variety of screen sizes.
• Experience designing and validating Hardware User Interface to include physical ergonomics and anthropometry.
• Experience conducting user research or observati