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Boston Scientific · 1 month ago

Sr. Human Factors Engineer

Arden Hills, MN

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$83K/yr - $157K/yr

6+ years exp

Boston Scientific is a leader in medical science committed to solving important health industry challenges. The Sr. Human Factors Engineer will apply their expertise in the development of complex medical devices, ensuring product safety and user interface quality through collaboration and usability studies.

Health CareMedicalMedical Device

No H1B

Responsibilities

Work cross-functionally with engineering groups, quality, regulatory, marketing, clinical, and R&D to ensure that products are safe and meet the needs of customers

Conduct early research, interviews, heuristic analysis, and contextual inquiry to gather design inputs ensuring customer and device interface quality needs are met for product development

Collaborate with Design Engineering, Design Quality Assurance (DQA) and technical writing staff to inform both usability engineering plan and risk documentation

Document product task and use error analysis by defining intended user profiles, use flow, use environments, tasks and potential use errors and associated hazards to inform design and potential risk mitigations

Define user interface specifications to generate design inputs/outputs, in support of developing mature system requirements that are testable from a usability perspective

Plan, write, conduct, and report on formative and summative usability studies for medical device products including EME. Document the Usability Engineering activities and prepare the Human Factors Usability Engineering Summary report

Continuously improve processes and work methodologies (using agile/lean principles to eliminate waste) to help solve complex, interdisciplinary problems by interfacing with peers/cross-functional groups to benefit all of BSC

Assist Regulatory with product submissions

Qualification

Human Factors EngineeringMedical Device DevelopmentUsability Study DesignContextual InquiryTaskUse Error AnalysisAgile Software DevelopmentCollaboration SkillsCommunication SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsOrganizational Skills

Required

BS/BA in Engineering, Marketing, Psychology or Industrial Design

Required minimum years of relevant work experience: 6 yrs with BS, or 4 yrs with MS

Strong medical device development experience and working with health care providers

Experience in Contextual Inquiry / gathering Design Inputs, Task and Use Error Analysis, and complex use flows

Formative and summative study design and execution

Documentation of usability study results (usability reports)

Preferred

Experience in console design, including Agile software development and usability testing with software prototyping tools

Ability to solve complex problems with root cause analysis, including designing and executing experimental plans and using statistical methodologies to drive data-based decisions

Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical inputs from multiple and varied sources

Excellent organizational, communication, and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently to plan, schedule, and execute activities necessary to meet project timelines

Discipline and standards knowledge specific to Human Factors Engineering

Contributions to the Human Factors / User Experience community