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Philips Full Time-Usability/Human Factors Engineer-Murrysville, PA-2025 in Murrysville, Pennsylvania
As part of the global SRC (Sleep & Respiratory Care) Patient Interface R&D team, your challenge will be to contribute to the creation of safe, intuitive solutions with an outstanding experience for a broad range of medical devices that SRC brings to market.
Your role:
Work with global cross-functional teams on the creation of an excellent user and patient experience for SRC wearable devices, specifically Patient Interface, ensuring safe and effective use. This involves working on all stages of the User-Centered product development process; from contribution to the initial research on user needs and workflow analyses, to providing usability evaluations for soon-to-be released products.
Create and execute usability evaluation plans within the team to be performed across design and development of our products. Such activities are defined in cooperation with internal stakeholders in the Business Units, peers, and with global functions, and executed according to current standards on usability engineering to ensure compliance with European and American regulations (i.e. FDA).
Conduct usability evaluations (formative and summative), expert reviews, heuristics evaluations using established usability practices and methods—reporting results, drawing conclusions and making recommendations for re-design and usability requirements.
Secure high-quality usability (usability safety, effectiveness, efficiency, and customer satisfaction in a specified context of use). Investigate cognitive, physical, and situational contexts in which a product is used (systems thinking approach) and map in a workflow/task analysis.
Create use scenarios and conduct usability risk management to capture potential use errors that are related to product usage and proposing UI mitigations to prevent the user from making the error. Create Usability engineering files (HFE report) to demonstrate that usability activities were successfully completed, and the product was found to be safe and effective.
You're the right fit if:
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, human factors engineering, information science, electrical engineer, bio engineering or mechanical engineer
Have an understanding of quantitative and qualitative data and its analysis.
Participate in creating functional requirements, risk assessment, design reviews, verification & validation.
Use of critical thinking to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions,conclusions or approaches to problems.
You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
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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Philips Transparency Details
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The pay range for this position in (Pennsylvania) is $ 60,200.00 - 86,000.00
The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.
In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.
At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.
Additional Information
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.
Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Murrysville, PA.
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