Human Factors Engineer

Job Title: Human Factors Engineer

Location: Cambridge, MA, US

Key Responsibilities (Do):

• Lead usability testing to understand users, use environments, and user characteristics.
• Collect and analyze user behavior through lab studies, field visits, ethnography, and surveys.
• Develop designs and hardware/software requirements for innovative user interfaces.
• Support the documentation and organization of activities needed to achieve 510k approval.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams consisting of engineering, marketing,quality, legal, and manufacturing.
• Incorporate best practices from human factors and user interface design.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the latest information regardingusability/human factors testing for medical devices.
• Collaborate with outside vendors and consultants.

Results Expected (Deliver):

• Identify, define, and document user interfaces for medical device products.
• Create, document, and execute usability test protocols.
• Document test reports following *** documentation standard operating procedures.
• •Disclose documented inventions to the patent team.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors Engineering or other appropriate field with a human factors concentration.
• 3 years of demonstrated experience developing GUI and conducting user research.
• Knowledge of ANSI HE75, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, IEC62366.
• Experience moderating user studies.
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills.

Additional Requirements:

• Brief explanation of interest in medical device technologies.
• Portfolio showcasing projects, skills, and processes.
• Ability to work in the office 3 days a week and remotely 2 days a week.
• Ability to travel up to 10% nationwide.
• Possession of a clean valid state driver's license.