Human Factors Engineer III

Boston Scientific • Santa Clarita, CA

8h • $75,100 - $142,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Neuromodulation (NMD) R&D team is looking for an experienced human factors engineer with extraordinary potential to apply their expertise in the development of complex medical devices and systems for class 2 & 3 devices, implantable products, hardware and/or software only products. As a member of the NMD R&D team, you will make important contributions to the development of life-changing medical devices through analysis of voice of the customer, user experience, formative, and summative analysis for a structured development process that proceeds from concept to production to operation.

Requirements

• BS/BA in Engineering, Psychology or Industrial Design
• Required minimum years of relevant work experience: 4 years of experience, graduate degree preferred
• Strong medical device development experience
• Experience in Contextual Inquiry / gathering Design Inputs, Task and Use Error Analysis, and complex use flows
• Formative and summative study design and execution
• Documentation of usability study results (usability reports)

Nice To Haves

• Experience evaluating both hardware and software
• Experience in user interface design with software prototyping tools
• Experience in evaluating spinal cord stimulation (SCS) systems
• Experience conducting usability activities with physicians
• Ability to solve complex problems with root cause analysis, including designing and executing experimental plans and using statistical methodologies to drive data-based decisions
• Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical inputs from multiple and varied sources
• Excellent organizational, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to work independently to plan, schedule, and execute activities necessary to meet project timeline
• Discipline and standards knowledge specific to Human Factors Engineering
• Contributions to the Human Factors / User Experience community

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with engineering groups, quality, regulatory, marketing, clinical, and R&D to ensure that products are safe and meet the needs of customers
• Conduct early research, interviews, heuristic analysis, and contextual inquiry to gather design inputs ensuring customer and device interface quality needs are met for product development
• Collaborate with Design Engineering, Design Quality Assurance (DQA) and technical writing staff to inform both usability engineering plan and risk documentation
• Document product task and use error analysis by defining intended user profiles, use flow, use environments, tasks and potential use errors and associated hazards to inform design and potential risk mitigations
• Define user interface specifications to generate design inputs/outputs, in support of developing mature system requirements that are testable from a usability perspective.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level