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Senior Human Factors Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Prairie Village, KS - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
17 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
14 October 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
The Senior Human Factors Engineer is a key member of the Engenious Design team. The Human Factors expert is an insightful and empathetic observer of users and their needs translating these insights into actionable inputs for engineers designers and product managers.
In this role you will have the opportunity to directly impact the safety usability and effectiveness of life-changing devices by ensuring they are built around the real needs of clinicians patients and caregivers. You will join a collaborative cross-functional team working on high-impact high-tech systems that improve healthcare outcomes.
This key team member is not afraid to go see how users interact with the systems we are designing observing clinical practice in person conducting interviews and generally partnering with clinicians to understand their viewpoints. They are equally comfortable talking to clients project managers and engineering partners.
Key Responsibilities:
Position Details:
This is a full-time permanent position. This position works from our Kansas City based office during core business hours.
While we recognize that top talent comes from all over the world we are a small team and are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
Because this role involves work in credentialed environments the employee must meet all immunization and health-screening requirements established by our clients and their clinical partners. This may include but is not limited to proof of immunity or vaccination for MMR Varicella Hepatitis B Tdap annual influenza and COVID-19 (varies by site) as well as a tuberculosis screening.
Required Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
In this role you will have the opportunity to directly impact the safety usability and effectiveness of life-changing devices by ensuring they are built around the real needs of clinicians patients and caregivers. You will join a collaborative cross-functional team working on high-impact high-tech systems that improve healthcare outcomes.
This key team member is not afraid to go see how users interact with the systems we are designing observing clinical practice in person conducting interviews and generally partnering with clinicians to understand their viewpoints. They are equally comfortable talking to clients project managers and engineering partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and conduct user research. Gather insights to uncover user needs workflows and pain points.
- Create protocol plans and proctor usability studies (formative and summative).
- Be a subject matter expert in relevant standards documentation including but not limited to IEC 60601 IEC 62366 ISO 14971 and AAMI/ANSI HE75.
- Prepare thorough documentation for regulatory submissions.
- Collaborate with designers engineers (systems mechanical electrical software) and product managers to define and implement user-centered design solutions.
- Enjoy a variety of projectsand people while doing meaningful work.
- See your work help real people. We create medical devices that save and improve lives such as designing and building life-sustaining medical devices and other advanced electromechanical technology.
- Build a portfolioto be proud of with opportunities to work on medical and consumer products.
Position Details:
This is a full-time permanent position. This position works from our Kansas City based office during core business hours.
While we recognize that top talent comes from all over the world we are a small team and are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
Because this role involves work in credentialed environments the employee must meet all immunization and health-screening requirements established by our clients and their clinical partners. This may include but is not limited to proof of immunity or vaccination for MMR Varicella Hepatitis B Tdap annual influenza and COVID-19 (varies by site) as well as a tuberculosis screening.
Required Qualifications:
- BS/BA Degree in Human Factors Engineering (HFE) Usability Engineering Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Biomedical Engineering or equivalent.
- 5 years of proven experience in the planning and execution of formative and summative studies.
- Expert in proctoring hands-on usability studies.
- Demonstrated ability to translate research study results and insights into user needs and/or design inputs.
- Familiar with FDA ISO IEC ANSI/AAMI and other relevant usability regulations and standards.
- Effective communication skills and capacity to collaborate with engineers designers and management stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications:
- Familiar with risk analysis documentation.
- Experience in healthcare or other regulated industries.
- Experience with Class II or Class III medical devices.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
We are a creative engineering consulting firm specializing in electronic medical device design and product development. Our team includes Electrical, Mechanical, Embedded Software and Test Engineers who work with our Human Factors, Industrial Designers and UI Designers.
