Senior Human Factors Engineer

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and Med Tech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

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Job Function:
R&D Product Development
Job Sub Function:
Industrial Design & Human Factors
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:

About Med Tech

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

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The J&J Med Tech Industrial Design, Human Factors, User Experience (IDHF/UX) organization is seeking a multi-faceted, exceptionally talented, user-centered Senior Human Factors Engineer who is passionate about improving the quality of people's lives through transformational user experiences.

Our global design team leverages Human Centered Design (HCD) philosophies to advance care and meet the needs of the Med Tech industry by placing users at the center of our design and usability process. We design solutions that span the full episode of care and balance the needs of various users (surgeons, hospital staff, patients and caregivers) through consistent, seamless, and optimized physical and digital experiences across our portfolio.

The IDHF/UX team is comprised of Human Factors Engineers, Industrial Designers, UX/Interaction Designers, Information Designers and Design Strategists. Our team leads contextual research to discover unmet user needs, create usability specifications, requirements, and iteratively test with stakeholders through a robust usability engineering process.

Job Summary and 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.

Qualifications
Education:

• 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.

Experience and Skills

Required:

• 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.

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…