Sr. Human Performance Engineer - Neuromotor Interfaces
Sr. Human Performance Engineer - Neuromotor Interfaces
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Job Description
Primary Function of Position
As a member of the Human Factors Team the Sr. Human Performance Engineer (HPE) leads the development of behavioral research on surgeons and care teams with Intuitive products to inform product strategy for future development establish evidence for product development and product claims.
As an HPE you will work closely with engineers (mechanical engineers computer scientists clinical engineers) product designers (industrial designers interaction designers) product managers as well as clinical scientists (health economists clinical affairs medical officers).
HPE conducts research to gain a deep understanding of human performance capabilities with respect to the usability of Intuitive products. This function conducts human subjects research that is focused on surgeon and care team cognition perception biomechanics and neuronal functions underlying performance associated with robotic surgery. Evidence generated from these studies provide strategic insight into what why and how much surgeons and care teams differ in performance across a range of products. This evidence informs design strategies defines requirements and substantiates claims.
This role functions in ambiguous and strategic stages of product development that involve the ability to position and conduct experimental research within a business. This research demands extensive follow-through to translate communicate ideate prototype and build novel evidence-based strategies tools and concepts that operationalize and inform the intuitiveness of existing and new products. This role demands quick changes in direction with capacity to think strategically while maintaining focus on the details. This role is an engaging opportunity that is highly technical with the expectation that you can integrate knowledge and skills related to scientific behavioral research that actionably supports the product design strategies product requirements and product claims associated with state-of-the-art human-robot interfaces.
Essential Job Duties
- Collect synthesize and present detailed human performance data regarding how users interact with Intuitive products through various research techniques including controlled experimentation simulations direct observations workflow analyses profiling metric development.
- Drafting usability requirements including physical cognitive social and organizational aspects of human factors that influence performance with Intuitive products.
- Leading tasks analyses usability risk analyses and workflow assessments.
- Literature review/ systematic analyses.
- Designing studies authoring protocols training junior staff on products and protocols.
- Developing experimental conditions in domains associated with neuromotor/ sensorimotor control and learning biomechanics cognition and perception.
- Analyzing data including processing inspecting transforming modeling as well as basic descriptive and inferential analysis.
- Conducting human subjects research.
- Authoring technical reports white papers abstracts manuscripts at all organizational levels.
- Authoring and managing IRB submissions.
- Developing integrating and applying novel instrumentation and applications for human subjects research.
- Reinforcing a human centered design approach across the organization.
- Consulting with all functions listed above include other members of Human Factors on large projects.
- Coordinating human factors efforts across projects involving several sub-systems.
- Managing human performance engineering activities within development projects providing schedules status updates to product managers and engineering project managers.
- Leading and supporting the development of new Human Factors processes including the creation and maintenance of new DOPs.
Qualifications :
Required Skills and Experience
- Minimum 6 years relevant research and engineering experience in product development industry.
- Minimum 6 years leading human subjects research.
- Ability to process and analyze large quantitative datasets from human subjects and robotic systems.
- Ability to analyze and synthesize large quantities of data from mixed methods research into usable communications.
- Ability to develop experimental conditions and stimuli in virtual and real environments.
- Ability to lead usability engineering activities (i.e. establishing usability requirements; creating usability risk analyses test protocols and test reports) for a complex software-controlled electro-mechanical medical device.
- Strong acumen with customer and colleague relationships in a highly professional manner.
- Superior ability to write accurate clear and concise protocols reports operating procedures a timely manner.
- Experience with authoring and reviewing scientific manuscripts.
- Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work with and across various groups and levels of management within the organization including other engineering groups commercial clinical engineering and regulatory. Excellent collaboration skills.
- Ability to apply user-centered design and human factors engineering principles to product research development and design.
- Ability to travel internationally as well as domestically (up to 25%).
Required Education and Training
- Minimum Education: BS in Cognitive Psychology Biomechanics Biomedical Engineering Computer Science with human-computer interface (HCI) emphasis Human Centered Design Human Factors Engineering or related field. MS or PhD strongly preferred.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience in research on Neuromotor/ Sensorimotor Control and Learning.
- Experience in Computer Science or Mechanical Engineering.
- Experience in research on Neuroscience a plus.
- Experience in research on Biomechanics a plus.
- Experience in research on Cognitive Science a plus.
- Experience in Computational Psychology or Data Science a plus.
- Experience in Differential Psychology a plus.
- Experience with bioinstrumentation a plus.
- Experience in medical device or similar regulated industry a plus.
Additional Information :
Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.
Mandatory Notices
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside or plan to reside in Alabama Arkansas Delaware Florida Indiana Iowa Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina or Tennessee.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
