Validation Engineer III
Alphatec Spine
Staff Human Factors Engineer
BD
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Salt Lake City • California, New Jersey, Utah • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $113,400 - $186,900 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Apply creative problem-solving strategies and techniques to get tactical, innovative, and disruptive ideas launched
- Seek to create the best possible product or service for our customers by finding the sweet spot between customers’ needs, business constraints, and technical capabilities
- Communicate passion and empathy for the customer and inspire teams to iterate until the best possible solution is found
- Apply Human Factors and Usability Engineering processes to determine customer needs and requirements for medical devices and software and provide recommendations to product teams and cross-functional stakeholders
- Facilitate and complete use specifications, task analyses, use error analyses (URRA, uFMEA), and other usability engineering deliverables aligned with FDA and IEC 62366 requirements to support regulatory submissions
- Collaborate closely with interface designers, engineers, and the marketing team, and business leaders to define detailed designs that meet customer needs
- Plan and execute usability studies, data analysis, documentation of results, and presentations following BD processes and relevant usability regulations and standards (i.e. FDA, IEC 62366, AAMI HE75)
- Lead brainstorming and ideating sessions, report-outs to stakeholders, and innovation research
- Teach human factors processes and understanding of our customers to cross-functional project teams as well as leaders and less-senior engineers
- Develop and evangelize product growth strategies and long-term roadmaps focused on improving user experience
Requirements
- BS in Engineering, Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics, Usability Engineering, Cognitive/Experimental Psychology, Industrial Design, Engineering Psychology
- Would consider 10+ years of professional UX/HFE experience in developing software and/or hardware in Lieu of a Degree
- Minimum 7 years of professional UX/HFE experience in developing software and/or hardware
- Demonstrated track record of success analyzing user needs via contextual research, usability testing, and other validation methods
- Experience mentoring human factors engineers and cross-functional teams on HF processes
- Understanding of FDA, ISO, AAMI, and other relevant usability regulations and standards
- Experience in healthcare and FDA experience in software design and development
- Excellent collaboration, communication, leadership, influencing, and presentation skills
Benefits
- valuable, competitive package of compensation and benefits programs which you can learn more about on our Careers Site under Our Commitment to You
- rewards and recognition opportunities
- support for learning, growth and development
- workplace accommodations considered pursuant to applicable law
- COVID-19 vaccination requirement or testing where applicable
- recognition of flexibility and work-life balance
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Human Factors EngineeringUsability EngineeringCognitive PsychologyUsability TestingData AnalysisTask AnalysisUse Error AnalysisContextual ResearchProduct Growth StrategiesUser Experience Design
Soft skills
Creative Problem-SolvingCollaborationCommunicationLeadershipEmpathyMentoringInfluencingPresentation SkillsFacilitationInnovation
