Senior Human Factors Engineer Job

Purpose and Passion • Comprehensive Benefits • Life-Work Integration • Community • Career Growth

At Boston Scientific, you will find a collaborative culture driven by a passion for innovation that keeps us connected on the most essential level. With determination, imagination and a deep caring for human life, we’re solving some of the most important healthcare industry challenges. Together, we’re one global team committed to making a difference in people’s lives around the world. This is a place where you can find a career with meaningful purpose—improving lives through your life’s work.

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Human Factors Engineer primarily supporting

Left Arterial Appendage Closure products within the Interventional Cardiology division. This role will utilize a variety of new and proven technologies to deliver life-changing medical devices to patients and clinicians in support of BSC’s mission.

This role will apply Human Factors Engineering (HFE) principles to our products across the entire product development lifecycle for complex medical device systems by partnering with other R&D engineering disciplines, marketing, design assurance, project managers, clinical, and regulatory. Key responsibilities include planning and execution of human factors activities throughout the product development cycle to ensure that products are safely & effectively used by our customers.

Your responsibilities include:

• Perform activities in partnership with functional engineering groups, quality, regulatory, marketing, clinical, and R&D to ensure that those products are safe and meet the needs of the customers.
• Provide HFE input based on field user research, evaluations, and literature to the product teams to enable design of user interfaces.

• Perform task analyses, use error risk analysis, heuristic evaluations, and competitive analysis.

• Interface with clinicians and other device users on executing formative and summative studies.

• Apply knowledge of device users, tasks, and use environments to the design and development of new products and product changes.

• Deliver verbal, written and visual communications, with an emphasis on problem framing, visual storytelling and strong information design to internal and external key stakeholders.
• Prepare documentation to support development activities, design controls, DHF, DMR including usability engineering plans, study protocols, task analysis, use error analysis, HFE technical reports, and regulatory submissions

What we’re looking for: Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Biomedical, Mechanical, Industrial Design, or other Engineering with experience or degree related to Human Factors
• Required minimum years of Human Factors work experience (primarily in medical device or related field): 4 years with BS, or 3 years with MS
• Human Factors Engineering experience planning, coordinating, conducting, analyzing, and reporting on usability studies.
• Experience with various Human Factors methodologies such as ethnographic research, contextual inquiry, knowledge and comprehension studies, expert analysis, task analysis, use error risk assessment, usability 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.
• Ability to clearly communicate how study results can be implemented into design, including analyzing and synthesizing large quantities of information into usable content for project teams and the business

Preferred Qualifications

• BS, MS or Minor in Engineering

• Experience applying human factors standards and guidance to new product development, preferably within the medical device industry, including formative usability testing and summative testing required for submissions

• Experience developing Class II or Class III medical devices
• Experience with medical device quality systems

About us

As a global medical technology leader for more than 35 years, our mission at Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) is to transform lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients. If you’re looking to truly make a difference to people both around the world and around the corner, there’s no better place to make it happen.

Boston Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Disability, Veteran

Boston Scientific maintains a drug-free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Req ID:468459