Principal Human Factors Engineer

What You Will Do

• Serving as the Human Factors Engineering (HFE) and Human Systems Integration (HSI) lead for one or more programs, establishing technical direction and execution strategy throughout the system lifecycle.
• Leading the development, implementation, and execution of MIL-STD-1472-compliant HFE programs and associated analyses.
• Acting as the primary Human Factors technical interface with customers, program leadership, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure human-centered design principles are integrated into system development.
• Driving the integration of HFE across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), influencing system architecture, requirements development, design decisions, verification activities, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Leading HFE contributions to system safety efforts, including identifying human-related hazards, performing risk assessments, and developing design controls in collaboration with System Safety Engineering.
• Coordinating with customer representatives and government stakeholders to interpret, refine, and allocate Human Factors requirements across software, hardware, training, maintenance, and operational domains.
• Reviewing, approving, and providing technical oversight of HFE analyses, assessments, reports, and engineering recommendations.
• Briefing Human Factors status, technical risks, findings, and recommendations to program leadership, customers, and engineering review boards.
• Interpreting system requirements, customer specifications, military standards, and contractual requirements to develop actionable Human Factors solutions.
• Collaborating across Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Logistics, Training, and System Safety organizations to ensure effective Human Systems Integration.
• Leading Human Factors Working Groups and participating in System Safety Working Groups, Engineering Review Boards, and customer technical interchange meetings.
• Developing and maintaining strong customer relationships while serving as a trusted advisor on Human Factors and HSI matters.
• Supporting proposal efforts through technical solution development, BOE generation, staffing recommendations, and authoring proposal content.
• Identifying opportunities to improve Human Factors processes, tools, methodologies, and organizational capabilities.
• Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to HFE/HSI practitioners, promoting best practices and technical excellence.
• Mentoring early and mid-career engineers through coaching, technical reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Exercising significant independent judgment to resolve complex technical challenges involving human performance, usability, safety, maintainability, training, and operational effectiveness.
• Supporting multiple programs and organizational initiatives as an HFE/HSI subject matter expert.
• Travel up to 20%

Qualifications You Must Have

• A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with Human Systems Integration, Human Factors Engineering or Safety Engineering.
• Experience with DoD Human Factors Programs e.g. MIL-STD-1472.
• Experience developing, implementing, and/or performing Human Engineering Program Plans, Human Engineering Assessments and/or Analyses.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret or Top-Secret SCI Clearance.
• Familiarity with Engineering Change Proposals, Engineering Review Boards, Human Factors Working Groups, and System Safety Working Groups.
• Experience with digital human modeling analysis.
• Experience with Manpower/Personnel Analysis.
• Experience with Human Performance Modeling (cognitive workload, manpower, and/or crew endurance modeling).
• Experience with Personnel Survivability and or/Habitability.
• Experience applying human factors engineering to the design of training systems and simulators.
• Experience with Human Factors requirements analysis.
• Experience with User Interface and developing wireframes.
• Experience interfacing with System Safety Engineering showcasing execution of tasking involving MIL-STD-882 and System Safety Engineering practices.
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and Proposal Development.