Principal Human Factors Engineer

RTX•Huntsville, AL

7d•$107,500 - $204,500•Onsite

About The Position

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Principal Human Factors Engineer to join us onsite in a closed area program with the LCE team. As a Principal Human Factors Engineer, your responsibilities will include serving as the Human Factors Engineering (HFE) and Human Systems Integration (HSI) lead for one or more programs, establishing technical direction and execution strategy throughout the system lifecycle. You will lead the development, implementation, and execution of MIL‑STD‑1472–compliant HFE programs and associated analyses. You will act as the primary Human Factors technical interface with customers, program leadership, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure human-centered design principles are integrated into system development. You will drive the integration of HFE across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), influencing system architecture, requirements development, design decisions, verification activities, and risk mitigation strategies. You will lead HFE contributions to system safety efforts, including identifying human-related hazards, performing risk assessments, and developing design controls in collaboration with System Safety Engineering. You will coordinate with customer representatives and government stakeholders to interpret, refine, and allocate Human Factors requirements across software, hardware, training, maintenance, and operational domains. You will review, approve, and provide technical oversight of HFE analyses, assessments, reports, and engineering recommendations. You will brief Human Factors status, technical risks, findings, and recommendations to program leadership, customers, and engineering review boards. You will interpret system requirements, customer specifications, military standards, and contractual requirements to develop actionable Human Factors solutions. You will collaborate across Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Logistics, Training, and System Safety organizations to ensure effective Human Systems Integration. You will lead Human Factors Working Groups and participate in System Safety Working Groups, Engineering Review Boards, and customer technical interchange meetings. You will develop and maintain strong customer relationships while serving as a trusted advisor on Human Factors and HSI matters. You will support proposal efforts through technical solution development, BOE generation, staffing recommendations, and authoring proposal content. You will identify opportunities to improve Human Factors processes, tools, methodologies, and organizational capabilities. You will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to HFE/HSI practitioners, promoting best practices and technical excellence. You will mentor early and mid-career engineers through coaching, technical reviews, and knowledge sharing. You will exercise significant independent judgment to resolve complex technical challenges involving human performance, usability, safety, maintainability, training, and operational effectiveness. You will support multiple programs and organizational initiatives as an HFE/HSI subject matter expert.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience
Experience with Human Systems Integration, Human Factors Engineering or Safety Engineering.
Experience with DoD Human Factors Programs e.g. MIL-STD-1472.
Experience developing, implementing, and/or performing Human Engineering Program Plans, Human Engineering Assessments and/or Analyses.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

Nice To Haves

Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret or Top-Secret SCI Clearance.
Familiarity with Engineering Change Proposals, Engineering Review Boards, Human Factors Working Groups, and System Safety Working Groups.
Experience with digital human modeling analysis.
Experience with Manpower/Personnel Analysis.
Experience with Human Performance Modeling (cognitive workload, manpower, and/or crew endurance modeling).
Experience with Personnel Survivability and or/Habitability.
Experience applying human factors engineering to the design of training systems and simulators.
Experience with Human Factors requirements analysis.
Experience with User Interface and developing wireframes.
Experience interfacing with System Safety Engineering showcasing execution of tasking involving MIL-STD-882 and System Safety Engineering practices.
Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and Proposal Development.
Human Factors-related education and BS/MS/PhD in one of the following (or closely related) disciplines: Human Factors Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, Engineering Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering.

Responsibilities

Serving as the Human Factors Engineering (HFE) and Human Systems Integration (HSI) lead for one or more programs, establishing technical direction and execution strategy throughout the system lifecycle.
Leading the development, implementation, and execution of MIL‑STD‑1472–compliant HFE programs and associated analyses.
Acting as the primary Human Factors technical interface with customers, program leadership, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure human-centered design principles are integrated into system development.
Driving the integration of HFE across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), influencing system architecture, requirements development, design decisions, verification activities, and risk mitigation strategies.
Leading HFE contributions to system safety efforts, including identifying human-related hazards, performing risk assessments, and developing design controls in collaboration with System Safety Engineering.
Coordinating with customer representatives and government stakeholders to interpret, refine, and allocate Human Factors requirements across software, hardware, training, maintenance, and operational domains.
Reviewing, approving, and providing technical oversight of HFE analyses, assessments, reports, and engineering recommendations.
Briefing Human Factors status, technical risks, findings, and recommendations to program leadership, customers, and engineering review boards.
Interpreting system requirements, customer specifications, military standards, and contractual requirements to develop actionable Human Factors solutions.
Collaborating across Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Logistics, Training, and System Safety organizations to ensure effective Human Systems Integration.
Leading Human Factors Working Groups and participating in System Safety Working Groups, Engineering Review Boards, and customer technical interchange meetings.
Developing and maintaining strong customer relationships while serving as a trusted advisor on Human Factors and HSI matters.
Supporting proposal efforts through technical solution development, BOE generation, staffing recommendations, and authoring proposal content.
Identifying opportunities to improve Human Factors processes, tools, methodologies, and organizational capabilities.
Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to HFE/HSI practitioners, promoting best practices and technical excellence.
Mentoring early and mid-career engineers through coaching, technical reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Exercising significant independent judgment to resolve complex technical challenges involving human performance, usability, safety, maintainability, training, and operational effectiveness.
Supporting multiple programs and organizational initiatives as an HFE/HSI subject matter expert.