Flight Deck Human Factors Engineer (Mid-level or Senior)

Boeing•North Charleston, SC

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is looking for a Flight Deck Human Factors Engineer (Mid-level or Senior) at our North Charleston, South Carolina site. This role is responsible for designing, testing, and certifying industry-leading, state-of-the-art Flight Decks for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The team ensures that current designs receive world-class support and that new and future designs are loved by pilots, advance aviation safety, and improve operational efficiency. The flight decks designed will be used for decades to come and connect the globe. In Flight Deck, the team defines the look and feel of the interface for pilots, and is responsible for that design from conception to the end of its service life. The team consists of experts in flight operations with unique knowledge of how flight crews operate airplanes and their needs, tasks, and constraints. This role involves working closely with pilots from all over the world to deliver industry-leading flight decks. The ideal candidate has a passion for aviation and enjoys working with a team of pilots, engineers, and customers who share that passion. A Flight Deck Human Factors specialist can have focus areas including display formats, menus and control interfaces, display hardware, flight management system, instrument panel layouts, crew alerting, electronic flight bag, crew personal electronic devices, failure effects and analysis, navigation, communication equipment, crew procedures, crew training, human factors/cognition, regulatory compliance, and ergonomic analysis. Engineers in this position will work alongside other engineers in solving problems and will receive tasks from a lead engineer but may also serve as a leader of a small team of engineers providing technical and work statement guidance. The team is currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Mid Level (Level 3) and Senior-Level (Level 4) Flight Deck Human Factors Engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and/or a human factors-related field of study.
5 years of relevant experience or a combination of education and experience
4+ years of experience in the aerospace engineering industry.

Nice To Haves

Level 4: 9+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience building positive relationships, collaborating effectively, and communicating clearly.
Pilots license.
Flight test experience
Human Factors experience.
Flight operations experience.
Ability to effectively communicate with a team in order to establish a consensus on complex technical issues.

Responsibilities

Designing, testing, and certifying the look, feel, and operational behavior of the flight deck, from the early conceptual phase to supporting airplanes through their service life.
Collaborating with pilots, designers, and systems engineers to ensure flight deck interfaces and flight management automation complements the cognitive, physical, sensory, and ergonomic capabilities of our pilots.
Conducting and executing user evaluations and testing in state-of-the-art full-flight simulators and flight test airplanes.
Designing and executing human factors studies in support of product development and product evolution, ensuring continuous growth within the frontier of human-system integration.
Supporting product development efforts to identify new and emerging technologies to increase aviation safety and add value to our products or services.
Supporting the establishment of design requirements for changes and enhancements to the flight crew interface on existing or new commercial airplane models, and testing and implementing those enhancements.
Developing and executing Human Factors processes in support of compliance activities and interacting with regulatory bodies, both domestic and international.
Utilizing Human Factors methodologies and best practices to develop, evaluate, analyze, test, and support the cognitive, interactive, ergonomic, and behavioral attributes of Boeing Flight Decks.
Informing and advocating for the incorporation of human performance limits in the assessment of safety risk in our product designs.
Working closely with the avionics community and a diverse and global community of flight operations professionals including flight test, technical and procedural, training, customer airline, and regulator pilots.
Represent Boeing Commercial Airplanes Human Factors community in both corporate enterprise functional organizations as well as industry committees.