Salary
💰 $118,600 - $178,000 per year
About the role
- Support the evaluation of requirements adhering to Human Factors best practices and specified sections of MIL-STD-1472
- Facilitate the customer’s product vision by conceiving, sketching, and prototyping experiences for digital products with a user centered design approach and consideration to HMI and Human Factors principals
- Be flexible and iterate designs in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
- Use one or more industry standard design and prototyping tools to create wireframes, visual designs, and interactive prototypes
- Leads, enables, and is accountable for the preparation, improvement, and integration of the human interface design visuals for the organization
- Confer with subsystem engineers and subject matter experts for project details regarding background information, project parameters and objectives, presentation approaches, styles, and techniques
- Collaboration with Design Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure evolving design addresses program needs and adheres to Human Interface design requirements
- Contributions to Human Factors Analyses (including but not limited to: Task Analyses and Predictive Workload Analyses, Usability studies, Workload, and Situational Awareness surveys)
- Conduct computer based (NX) and empirical accessibility assessments from both an operator and maintainer perspective
- Author/support the program documentation of the HFE processes and products in a format consistent with US Military Data Item Descriptions (e.g. Human Engineering Program Plan, Human Engineering Design Approach Document – Operator, Human Engineering Design Approach Document – Maintainer, Human Engineering Test Plan, Human Engineering Test Report, et. Al)
- Support and execute demonstration & test procedures and author technical reports and presentations
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience in a Human Factors related field; or a Master's degree and 6 years of experience in a related field; or a PhD and 4 years of experience in a related field
- Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation)
- U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance
- Experience developing, administering and/or analyzing Human Factors questionnaires such as Usability, Workload, and Situational Awareness
- Proficiency in writing and executing demonstration & test procedures
- The ability to clearly and accurately express engineering findings orally and in written technical reports and presentations
- Familiar with interpretation and application of systems safety, personnel survivability, and habitability requirements to system design
- Experience with CAD Tools (NX and NX Jack Expertise preferred)
- Experience with system engineering processes and tools (CAMEO preferred)
- Understand systems and design thinking as well as HMI/HCI design principles and practices
- Experience authoring Human Interface Design CDRLs in accordance with DoD Data Item Descriptions (HEDAD-M/O, HEPP, HSIPP, HETP/R, etc)
- Experience interpreting, applying, and/or tailoring MIL-STD-1472, MIL-STD-411, MIL-STD-1787, MIL-STD-3009, and/or MIL-STD-46855
- Experience in system modeling tools (CORE, Rhapsody, PTC Integrity Modeler, Cameo)
- Experience with visual design (typography, symbology, layout) and UX/UI development methods (personas, usability testing, heuristic evaluations)
- Experience with wireframing and user interface prototyping (e.g. Balsamiq)
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (i.e. InDesign, Illustrator)
- Willingness to travel up to 10%