Principle Human Factor Engineer
Principle Human Factor Engineer
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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll 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 companys 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.
Responsibilities Include:
- 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)
Must Have: Minimum Qualifications
- 10 years experience in the medical device industry in systems digital or software development with proven record of accomplishment. Knowledge of Agile methodology is nice to have.
- Experience in 5 major product or portfolio releases. Experience in a regulated product industry is nice to have.
- 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.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic Inc. (Medtronic) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County you can findhere a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Employment Type
Full-Time
