Johnson & Johnson · 1 week ago
Senior Human Factors Engineer
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$92K/yr - $148K/yr
5+ years expJohnson & Johnson is a leader in healthcare innovation, developing personalized treatments through advanced technology. The Senior Human Factors Engineer will leverage Human Centered Design principles to enhance user experiences and usability in MedTech products, leading research and ensuring that user needs are met throughout the product development lifecycle.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Our IDHF/UX team leads contextual research to discover unmet user needs, create usability specifications and requirements, and iteratively tests with stakeholders throughout a robust formative and summative usability process
Leads or supports human factors efforts for programs from concept through post market release, supporting and influencing usability activities for product lines and programs with minimal oversight
Support user research and insights discovery through design thinking, planning, coordination, observation, data collection, analysis, documentation and collaboration with cross-functional teammates throughout a robust usability engineering process
The position will interact closely with multiple product development teams across multiple platforms to complete the necessary usability research and documentation and partnering with business leaders/stakeholders to ensure success
Develop a good understanding of intended use environments through field visits at multiple locations, and gain insight into intended user types through direct interactions with users
Work on problems of diverse scope that impact broader program team and business and leads projects requiring identification and analysis of a variety of factors, demonstrating judgment in selecting methods and techniques for evaluations
Mentors’ others on project deliverables and supervises/directs third party contractors/consultants; including reviews of deliverables to ensure accuracy
Qualification
Required
BS/BA Degree in Human Factors Engineering (HFE), Usability Engineering, Cognitive Science, Anthropology, or equivalent; Post-Graduate Degrees (MS, PhD) are a plus and will be considered as part of the applicant's professional experience
Minimum of 5 years' human factors/usability engineering experience/use case validation testing or equivalent experience in product development and customer interactions is required
Experience in the planning and execution of all aspects of the HFE process including ethnographic research, formative and summative studies, documentation for design control and risk management, including moderating of studies is required
Familiarity with FDA, ISO, AAMI, and other relevant usability regulations and standards
Must be able to commute into the Cincinnati, Ohio or Raritan, NJ office at least three days per week
Ability to travel up to 20%, domestic and international is required
Preferred
Strong knowledge of human factors principles; working knowledge of task and use-related risk analysis methods
Knowledge of user interface and user experience principles for hardware and software, workload, human perception and cognition
Basic knowledge of anthropometrics, biomechanics, and physiology
Experience consolidating user feedback into concise, meaningful design insights and actionable recommendations
Experience in ability to negotiate with stakeholders and provide disposition feedback and/or suggestions for edits or new entries
Experience performing root cause analysis for use-related problems
Experience partnering with R&D, Marketing and Development teams to define and act as a guardian in upholding the best usability practices
Medical Device product development or experience is a strong plus
Clinical experience and/or professional experience/degrees in software development and/or GUI development is a strong plus
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability
Business accident insurance
Group legal insurance
Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension)
Savings plan (401(k))
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
Caregiver Leave – 10 days
Volunteer Leave – 4 days
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours
Company
Johnson & Johnson
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.
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