Principle Human Factor Engineer

Medtronic • Lafayette, CO

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About The Position

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. A Day in the Life Human Factors Design Engineer Careers that Change Lives Medtronic aims to contribute to human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments or appliances that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. To recognize the personal worth of all employees, Medtronic provides an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success. If you consider joining the team and you are committed to doing meaningful work, making a difference, and improving lives, you will find a culture of collaboration and innovation at Medtronic. Starting the road to your rewarding career with them will come with competitive pay, bonuses, and benefits supporting your work-life balance. In the role as Human Factors Design Engineer, you will work with the Product Design team to advance existing technology or introduce novel technologies and therapies, specifically in Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence. You will work with key stakeholders to understand, define, and design the user interface of the products in HealthCast Acute Care and Monitoring. Additionally, the individual will be responsible for building tight collaboration and a culture of trust within the Digital Health and AI organization. A Day in the Life As a Human Factors Design Engineer, you will be accountable for supporting and owning the human factors activities required for HealthCast projects. The Human Factors Design Engineer will also collaborate with the UI/UX Designers to ensure designs are meeting user needs established.

Requirements

• 10+ years' experience in the medical device industry in systems, digital or software development with proven record of accomplishment.
• Experience in 5+ major product or portfolio releases.
• Ability to quickly understand complex system behaviors, engineering problems, technical and architectural constraints.
• A robust design portfolio articulating past design work
• Excellent verbal and written and communication skills with an aptitude for convincing others, both internally and externally, of the value of their ideas.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Agile methodology is nice to have.
• Experience in a regulated product industry is nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Strong understanding of user experience principles, which are customer facing and additionally medical device centered.
• Applies human centered principles, methodologies, and technologies to the design of software and hardware medical device products
• Develops and implements research methodologies to test and evaluate new concepts and developmental prototypes used in all phases of product development and processes
• Designs and executes tests to simulate product use for the purposes of user need investigation, concept exploration/selection/refinement, requirements development, use-related risk identification and formal usability validation with intended users
• Responsible for defining and maintaining the human factors process for the organization
• Establishes user needs to ensure optimized interfaces and overall user experience
• Identifies and analyzes problems or risks, performs human factors investigations, and develops and implements research and analysis plans to inform the design direction of new product development
• Responsible for human factors research and activities for a single product while supporting human factors needs on other products
• Responsible for collaboration with other Human Factors Design Engineers to align on design briefs and expectations for the program
• Collaboration with Chief Designer and other UI/UX designers to conduct design research, build journey maps and user personas
• Ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously and keep organized and multitask.
• Understanding of business needs with product management experience
• Understanding of stage gate processes for projects within the medical device project lifecycle
• Organizational collaborator on DH&AI enabled initiatives to leverage cross disciplinary and globally distributed teams to craft high-quality products and services that customers love and drive preference
• Collaborate with other leaders to ensure successful development, release, and launch of world-class product (portfolio/program)

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees