Senior Human Factors Engineer – UserWise, Inc. – San Jose, CA

Senior Human Factors Engineer
Human Factors Engineer
Summary

As a full time Usability Engineering Consultant at UserWise, you will be helping innovative companies design safe and usable medical devices, ensuring that user experience is incorporated early and often in the design process. You will also consult with established medical device companies to encourage the adoption of human factors best practices. At UserWise, we pride ourselves on being experts and having experience in a variety of products including wearable sensors, surgical devices, diagnostic equipment, drug administration devices, and home-use devices. We are located at 919 The Alameda, San Jose, California.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Meet with clients to learn about new technologies and interpret client needs to consult on usability engineering
  • Perform task analyses and user research studies for new medical device concepts
  • Contribute to user interface designs by providing guidance, ideas, and feedback to clients
  • Author user-interface requirements documents
  • Author and update usability risk analyses in collaboration with coworkers and clients
  • Author formative and summative usability study protocols
  • Plan and coordinate usability studies, including gathering equipment, designing and preparing study models, and recruiting participants
  • Moderate formative and summative usability studies and/or take notes.
  • Data analysis and analysis of usability study video footage to identify root cause of observed use errors
  • Prepare and/or assist with formal usability study reports
  • Create usability engineering files and author Human Factors Engineering Submission Reports
  • Assist with quality system work such as development of usability engineering processes for clients and UserWise.
  • Prepare and/or provide human factors engineering trainings and webinars
  • Author human factors engineering blog posts and articles on behalf of UserWise, Inc.
  • Offer Quality Engineering consulting and authorship of quality engineering documentation (as an add-on to human factors services)

Candidate Requirements

  • BS in Mechanical Engineering, Human Factors Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering. MS strongly preferred.
  • At least 5 years of experience in medical device development, or similarly regulated industry
  • Extensive experience working within a quality system, preferably at a fortune 500 medical device or pharmaceutical company
  • Mastery of the 2016 FDA Guidance for Human Factors and human factors standards such as IEC 62366
  • Superior ability to write accurate, clear, and concise protocols, reports, operating procedures, etc. in a timely manner
  • Ability to analyze and synthesize large quantities of information into usable communications
  • Ability to interface with customers in a highly professional manner
  • Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to travel domestically (up to 30% once the pandemic concludes)

Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Related keywords: engineer

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $105,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Vision insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

Supplemental Pay:

COVID-19 considerations:
UserWise is currently working remotely, with 5% of our time spent on-site conducting usability testing. Usability studies follow strict COVID-19 safety protocols and include limited on-site teams.

Education:

  • Bachelor’s (Required)

Experience:

  • Manufacturing: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location:

  • One location

This Company Describes Its Culture as:

  • Detail-oriented — quality and precision-focused
  • Team-oriented — cooperative and collaborative

Company’s website:

  • https://www.userwiseconsulting.com

Company’s Facebook page:

  • https://www.facebook.com/userwise/

Benefit Conditions:

  • Waiting period may apply
  • Only full-time employees eligible

Work Remotely:

  • Temporarily due to COVID-19

COVID-19 Precaution(s):

  • Remote interview process
  • Personal protective equipment provided or required
  • Temperature screenings
  • Social distancing guidelines in place
  • Virtual meetings
  • Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place

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