Principal 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

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

What You’ll Work On

• 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 

• Developing prototypes to explore and validate product design concepts 

• Performing workflow, task and use error analyses 

• Conducting Formative Usability testing  

• Conducting Summative Validation testing   

• Participate on development program teams to ensure sound human factors principles are considered and implemented  

• Create and communicate project plans, tasks and deliverables and manage time to meet project deadlines.  

Required Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• M.S. degree in Human Factors Engineering, or a related discipline   

• 7+ years of relevant human factors/usability engineering or design experience  

• Proven ability to apply knowledge of human factors principles (human performance and limitations – perceptual, cognitive, motor skills, anthropomorphic) and techniques (user research, user-interface design, usability testing) to the design, development, and evaluation of hardware and/or software products  

• Experience leading Human Factors activities across the product lifecycle, including ethnographic research, user needs identification, workflow and task analysis, requirements development, user interface design, user error analysis, usability and validation testing 

• A proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and provide technical leadership    

• Experience with software and/or hardware user-interface design