Boston Scientific Principal Human Factors Engineer 

United States, Minnesota 

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About the role:

This role will apply Human Factors Engineering (HFE) principles to our products across the

product development lifecycle for complex products by partnering with other 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 and usability evaluations to the project teams to enable design of user interfaces.

• Perform task and use error risk analysis, heuristic evaluations, cognitive walk throughs, and formative and summative testing.

• 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, usability engineering files, including usability engineering plans, formative and summative study protocols/moderator guide/reports, task and use error analysis, and technical reports.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline with experience or degree related to Human Factors
• 7+ years of Human Factors or related work experience (primarily in medical device or related field) or 5+ years with related Master’s degree
• Experience planning, coordinating, conducting, analyzing, and reporting on Formative and Summative usability studies
• Experience with various Human Factors methodologies such as ethnographic research, contextual inquiry, cognitive walk through, expert analysis, task and use error analysis, simulated use 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
• Up to 20% Domestic Air Travel

Preferred Qualifications

• BS, MS or Minor in Engineering, or relevant experience in a technical discipline
• Experience applying human factors standards and guidance to new product development, preferably within the medical device industry

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

Compensation for
exempt, non-sales rolesmay also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.