Sr Principal Engineer, Human Factors

Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards, we put patients first. We invest a significant proportion of our revenue towards research and development to drive and develop groundbreaking medical innovations for structural heart disease. As part of our R&D Engineering team, you will work closely with our Quality and Manufacturing teams to develop the latest tools and technologies to address significant, unmet clinical needs that impact patients’ lives around the world.

Our Advanced (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). harness the imagination, courage, and resourcefulness to think beyond what’s currently possible, and create solutions for patients many years into the future. If you’re an early-stage innovator, then Edwards AT team is the place for you to take the next steps in your career. We’ll give you the tools and resources you need to create groundbreaking innovations that shape the future of structural heart technology.

How you’ll make an impact:

This Senior Principal Human Factors Engineer role is a unique opportunity to foster and support human factors and usability engineering activities with new product development and commercial teams across projects and business units, for both Med Tech device solutions. This is a high visibility and high impact career opportunity.

• Support patient-first corporate strategy by applying knowledge of human factors engineering requirements and best practices to minimize use-related risk, improve user experience, and achieve device and system clinical success.
• Provide design guidance and solutions to highly complex usability issues for Med Tech device solutions (mechanical, digital, implantables/wearables, SaMD, etc)..
• Engage and influence business unit and project team leadership to support human factors and usability engineering activities throughout the product development process.
• Partner with clinical, quality, regulatory, marketing, and R&D functions from multiple project teams to promote and execute best practices in human factors and usability engineering, identify and mitigate use-related risks, and ensure compliance with internal requirements and external regulations and expectations.
• Initiate and lead in the design, planning, and execution of usability research and evaluations, analyze results, identify risk mitigation and design improvement recommendations, and communicate findings and recommendations to the team.
• Document results of usability evaluations and other usability engineering process deliverables, including usability engineering plans, protocols, reports, team debriefs, design reviews, etc.
• Identify opportunities to improve product usability and user experience by engaging with clinicians and other device users to collect user feedback (both objective and subjective) on devices.
• Lead the development of new and complex human factors evaluation methods and technologies.
• Provide creative solutions to alleviate complex usability problems.
• Maintain current knowledge of human factors and usability regulations, expectations, and best practices.
• Mentor, coach, and guide employees on usability processes and best practices.
• Some domestic and international travel (up to 5%).

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience OR a Master's degree with 7 years of experience OR a PhD with 4 years of experience.
• Suitable undergraduate and/or graduate degrees include human factors engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, or a related engineering/science/design discipline.

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Experience in the medical device or other highly regulated industry is required.
• Human factors / usability engineering experience is required.
• UI/UX design experience is highly desirable.
• Experience planning and executing human factors studies utilizing various methodologies such as ethnographic research, contextual inquiry, cognitive walk through, heuristic analysis, task analysis, simulated use studies, and summative testing.
• Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical inputs from multiple and varied sources. Ability to be collaborative and flexible in approach to solving user interface related challenges.
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