Senior Human Factors Engineer - AiBLE Validation

About the role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on 22 Jul 2026.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design and execute real-world clinical and customer evaluations to test and evaluate that solutions perform effectively in actual use scenarios and surgical environments during the product development process.
• Validate that solutions improve workflow efficiency, usability, reliability, performance, and clinical outcomes under real-use conditions and integrated as part of Medtronic’s AiBLE Ecosystem.
• Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative methods and criteria in which to demonstrate a product’s safe and effective use.
• Analyze test results to identify use errors, close calls, operational difficulties, and product defects. Ensure identified product issues are dispositioned and tracked.
• Document a product version’s end-to-end usability strategy and evaluation outcomes.
• Apply cognitive and behavioral science to the design of solutions under development and perform heuristic or other usability analyses during design reviews to ensure the product is appropriately designed for actual use.
• Perform usability failure modes and effects analysis to identify critical tasks, mitigations, and test methodology to demonstrate effectiveness.
• Develop UI / UX specifications, provide design improvement recommendations, and perform defect analysis to improve use experience or further mitigate risk.
• Efectively communicate and present findings, challenges, solutions, and recommendations within the team, organization, stakeholder leaders, and outside the organization.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire engineers – building up technical capability and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, technical rigor, and collaboration.
• Engage cross-functional stakeholders (Product Management, R&D, Quality, Marketing, Operations, etc) to balance technical excellence, usability, and business objectives to ensure successful execution of programs.
• Collaborate across Medtronic to ensure best practices are employed in designs and development processes.
• Drive positive engagement with technical teams and business leaders.
• Ensure adherence to Medtronic and other quality standards including design procedures and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technically related field (STEM) with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree in a technically related field (STEM) with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
• PhD in a technically related filed (STEM).

Qualifications

• Experience in the medical device industry or in the surgery field.
• Experience leveraging Artificial Intelligence to improve the efficiency of work.
• Experience in leading cross-functional or multi-platform engineering activities across product definition, specification, test, and launch.
• Expertise in product design validation and the validation of their integration into an ecosystem of connected products.
• Expertise in usability standards, tools and models that facilitate design validation.
• Experience in user experience and user interaction design.
• Experience in robotic-assisted surgery, computer-assisted surgery, anatomical imaging, and/or remote/cloud-based software design.
• Experience in planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts.
• Experience with software design and iterative (Agile) software development practices.
• Experience with hardware design.
• Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to influence across the organization.
• Able to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions.
• Able to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas.
• Able to align engineering execution with long-term portfolio strategies and roadmaps.
• Able to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the-art.
• Strong communication and storytelling ability – able to simplify complexity for executives while inspiring teams.
• Strong leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.
• Strong ability to drive changes throughout the organization.
• Able to work with individuals from different geographic locations and cultures.

Skills

• Experience in human factors engineering.
• Ability to lead and mentor a team.
• Strong understanding of medical device design and validation.
• Expertise in usability testing and analysis.
• Experience in robotic-assisted surgery and computer-assisted surgery.
• Knowledge of AI and its applications in healthcare.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence across the organization.

Benefits

For more information on Medtronic’s benefits and compensation packages, please visit our website.