srch 11100: Principal Human Factors Engineer

 

srch 11100: Principal Human Factors Engineer
Location: Southern California

The Company

Our client is a leading medical product design and development firm in the medical, consumer health and life science category. They are a group of seasoned interdisciplinary product development professionals who specialize in translating human needs into breakthrough products to resonate with intended users, and have a large portfolio of national medical product manufacturers, from start-ups to established enterprises.

Mission

To focus exclusively on supporting medical device manufacturers through a human-centered philosophy, to introduce empowering, intuitive technologies to a variety of health care marketplaces.


Position Overview

The ideal Principal Human Factors Engineer (HFE) is an expert in understanding research design and uncovering meaningful insights to drive design decisions. The HFE should have a profound interest in the medical device space and are looking to have a positive impact on users in homes and doctor’s offices across the country. This client is all about putting the “human” in human factors and will be expected to moderate studies and work with test subjects. The ideal candidate thrives in a highly collaborative environment with designers, mechanical engineers and a variety of multidisciplinary roles. They are a pipeline and advocate for human factors who are eager to make others as passionate about the subject matter as they are. In this role the HFE wil gain exposure, work with external partners, exercise more leadership and grow within the position. This employer is also open to flexible work arrangements for candidates in the southern California area.

Principal Responsibilities

  • Research: Plan design studies, Write protocol, recruit, coordinate test facility, moderate, analyze, write reports, and provide purposeful best practice recommendations to clients.

  • Lead presentations to clients.  Project management.  Provide the design team with expert and meaningful input based on design research and best practices in human factors for product development on a regular basis

  • Design oversight during engineering / manufacturing, perform other job-related duties as assigned

Experience Requirements

  • Experience developing, running and leading design research/usability testing

  • Comfortable in leading research in medical and related environments

  • Strong leadership and presentation skills

  • Administered formative and summative testing

  • General knowledge of medical procedures and environments

  • Planning and executing design research from start to finish

  • Clearly written reports and management of deliverables

  • Coordinate research with Design and Engineering teams


Additional Training, Skills, Knowledge, and/or Experience

  • Specific skills in Cognitive Psychology (Masters or PhD) (Plus)

  • Specific training courses in Human Factors Certificate (Plus)

  • General experience in  Formative and Summative Testing using FDA Guidelines (Plus)

  • Experience in the following areas

    • Competitive product and environment benchmarking and analysis

    • Surveys for user group studies and web based research

    • Ethnography and Cognitive analysis

    • Workflow and Task analysis

    • Development of Personas, Storyboards, and Use-cases

    • Human Factors and Heuristic reviews

    • Safety and issue analysis

    • Usability testing and validation 

    • Practical use of testing software and video recording instruments

Due to the volume of applicants, we are unable to respond to each candidate. Please no phone calls.