Usability Engineer
Philips
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Upgrade to Pro — $25/moThe Usability Designer ensures Philips solutions are safe, effective, efficient, intuitive, and satisfying to use by leading usability activities and advocating for user needs and patient safety across the full product development lifecycle.
Your role:
Conducts usability activities across all development phases in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams including UI/UX, product design, clinical, R&D, and system engineering.
Define the usability engineering approach for projects, including planning activities, resources, and usability integration throughout development.
Conduct user research, develop use scenarios and task analyses, and analyze cognitive, physical, and situational use contexts to support intuitive and efficient design.
Identify, analyze, and document usability risks and potential use errors through comprehensive usability risk analyses.
Plan, conduct, and report usability studies in compliance with privacy, usability, and legal requirements, including NDAs, site agreements, and informed consent.
Analyze post‑market data and create Human Factors Engineering and usability documentation to demonstrate product safety, effectiveness, and regulatory compliance.
You're the right fit if:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in (UX) Design, Interaction Design, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering or related fields.
Minimum 2 years of experience in Usability or Testing engineering, preferably within the medical devices industry.
Your skills include Advanced English (C1), deep understanding of FDA and IEC regulations, effective communication, excellent stakeholder management, strong analytical (Excel) and presentation (PPT) skills.
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
This is an office role.
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