Human Factors Engineer

Job Description

An employer is seeking multiple Human Factors Engineers for a long term opportunity in the Cincinnati, OH area. These Human Factors Engineers will be joining the R&D department for delivering on detailed workstreams as a key individual contributor while providing guidance and support across a range of HF activities. These responsibilities will include: development and execution of human factors and usability strategies from initial concept through post-market support, facilitate usability efforts across product lines and programs. They will collaborate with R&D, Marketing, Medical Safety, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Engineering, and Quality Engineering to design, evaluate, and provide guidance on solutions and their user-related impact throughout the entire care process, ensuring a balance of the needs of users, surgeons, hospital staff, and patients in alignment with the technical development roadmap. They will be required to prepare precise and concise usability engineering documents for multiple projects in a timely manner, including task analyses, usability risk assessments, use specifications, test reports and root cause analyses, and usability engineering plans and act as a human factors SME for ergonomic and anthropometric principles. This role will be hybrid role in Cincinnati, where the consultants will be on site 3 days a week and remote 2 days a week.

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Skills and Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Human Factors Engineering (HFE), Usability Engineering, Cognitive Science, Anthropology or Biomedical Engineering

5+ years' work experience in human factors/usability engineering experience/use case validation testing or equivalent experience in product development for Medical Devices

5+ years of human factors engineering process, including research, planning, risk assessment, user interface requirements, and regulatory submissions.

Expertise in planning, executing, documenting, and reporting usability testing, including moderation of studies

Proven knowledge of the IEC 62366 standard and the FDA guidance on human factors engineering and understanding of ISO 14971 and IEC 62304 in a working environment Clinical experience and/or professional experience/degrees in software development and/or GUI development is a strong plus.

Hands-on experience contributing to the development of both software and hardware solutions.