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Abbott · 2 months ago

Senior Human Factors Engineer

United States - California - San Diego

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$87K/yr - $173K/yr

4+ years exp

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Sr. Human Factors Engineer role is focused on designing and executing studies related to user behavior and attitudes for in-home products, while also coordinating usability improvement plans and collaborating with various teams to enhance product usability.

BiotechnologyEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalMedical DeviceNutritionPharmaceutical

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Responsibilities

Act as a thought leader in domain of research, while advocating for people who use our products

Design and execute studies that address both user behavior and attitudes, using the right methodology for the right questions

Generate insights that shape how product teams think about medium and long-term product strategy

Contributes to customer, competitive, and software industry research to identify and prioritize usability improvement possibilities

Contributes to the creation of usability related processes and improvements

Collaborates with team members on risks and resolution of issues to program leadership team

Creates detailed usability improvement concepts. Works within internal departments, and project teams to create and manage usability improvement activities

Using knowledge of customer needs, company technology, business plans, as well as market research and financial tools such as ROI, contributes to usability improvement projects

Communicates improvement plans, concepts and status across Marketing, development staff, and senior management

Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors

Work cross-functionally with design, product management, data science, content strategy, engineering, and marketing

Provide human factors support to R&D teams for product development

Responsible for directing and coordinating all activities necessary to complete human factors engineering projects. Activities include, but are not limited to:

Conducting ethnographic user research to identify user needs

Translating user needs to requirements and product design concepts

Developing prototypes to explore and validate product design concepts

Prepare documentation to support development activities including protocols, task analysis, risk assessment, reports, and regulatory submissions

Conducting Formative Usability testing

Conducting Summative Validation testing

Participate on development program teams to ensure sound human factors principles are considered and implemented

Participate in teams to design solutions to usability issues

Create and communicate project plans, tasks and deliverables and manage time to meet project deadlines

Support and provide HFE expertise in preparation for clinical studies and regulatory submissions in accordance with HF standard methodologies

Communicate regularly with internal and external key partners

Apply detailed risk-based process including identifying potential use-related hazards, mitigating those risks, and validating the risk mitigations are effective

Understands and is aware of the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of their specific job; has awareness of device defects that may occur in their area of responsibility, including product design, verification and validation, manufacturing and testing activities

Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal/external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company’s policies and practices; build productive internal/external working relationships

Other duties as assigned, according to the changing needs of the business

Qualification

Human Factors EngineeringUser ResearchUsability TestingQualitative Research MethodsQuantitative Research MethodsCognitive PsychologyTeam CollaborationCommunication SkillsProject Management

Required

B.A/B.S. in a human behavior related field, such as human-computer interaction, psychology, sociology, communication, information science, media studies, computer science, or economics

4+ years' experience in applied product research in a similar role

Travel less than 30% of the time, including internationally

Preferred

Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods

Experience synthesizing large-scale data in multi-method studies

Experience with survey design and response effects

User Research, Human Factors, Usability

Requires experience in human factors as well as cognitive psychology theory and application; the product development process, software technology, and effective methods of working with R&D teams

Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross-division business unit model preferred

Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment

Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment

Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects

Benefits

Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

Tuition reimbursement

Freedom 2 Save student debt program

FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

Company

Abbott

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Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines.

Founded in 1888

Illinois City, Illinois, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.abbott.com

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