The Senior Usability Engineer is an important member of the User Experience & Workflow team, ensuring Philips World leading Ultrasound Imaging products are intuitive, safe, and effective, contributing to improving and saving lives around the world.

　　Your role:

　　The Senior Usability Engineer acts in all stages of the product development lifecycle, ensuring Philips Ultrasound products are safe and intuitive by investigating the cognitive, physical, and situational context in which a product is used (systems thinking). You will work directly with end users/clinical stakeholders to understand user workflows, ease-of-use issues and ensure the translation of ideas into product user requirements and design.

　　The Senior Usability Engineer provides coaching, guidance/recommendations on design improvements to user experience designers, product designers and development teams. You will create use scenarios, conduct usability risk management to identify potential usage errors and propose UI mitigations to prevent future errors.

　　The Senior Usability Engineer will manage, prepare, execute, and report on usability formative/summative evaluations to identify new usability related risks, evaluate the effectiveness of previous risk mitigations, and ensure a consistent transfer of the safety usability risks, severity of harm and risk mitigations to/from the risk management process. Ensures that non-safety, critical to quality issues (user satisfaction) are also analyzed and considered for mitigation.

　　Reporting to the Usability Group Leader, you will collaborate with New Product Introduction (NPI), R&D, Project Core Teams-Project/Product management, clinical product marketing, quality, regulatory, and verification teams.

　　This Hybrid role can be based in Bothell , WA or Cambridge, MA and may require travel up to 10%.

　　You're the right fit if:

　　You’ve acquired a minimum of 7 years’ experience in Medical Usability Engineering, with a thorough understanding of FDA guidelines/standards (IEC62366-1, ISO 14971, ISO 9241-11 (2018)).

　　Your skills include project management/leadership (including 3rd parties), qualitative/ quantitative research, human research methodologies and analytical problem solving.

　　You have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in- design research, design strategy, interaction design, usability, human factors, human-computer interaction or similar disciplines (Required). Master’s degree desired.

　　You have knowledge of the latest technology advancements in the field of medical usability, with strong experience in requirements management and usability/design risk management (Usability FMEA).

　　You have created Usability Engineering Plans, files (HFE reports) to demonstrate usability activities were successfully completed, products were found to be safe/effective and shared/aligned results of context analysis and usability evaluations/risk analysis with stakeholders.

　　You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position .

　　US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

　　About Philips:

　　We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

　　Learn more about our business.

　　Discover our rich and exciting history.

　　Learn more about our purpose.

　　Read more about our employee benefits.

　　If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

　　Philips Transparency Details:

　　The pay range for this position is $130,000 to $223,000, annually. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on multiple factors including, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

　　#LI-PH1

　　It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

　　As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

　　Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran