Senior Human Factors Engineer

About the role

The Raytheon System Safety / Human System Integration (HSI) Department is seeking a highly motivated Senior Human Factors Engineer to join our closed area program in Tewksbury, MA. This role involves leading Human Factors Engineering across major subsystems or full system segments, serving as a technical authority, integrating Human Factors Engineering across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), and driving Human Factors planning throughout the program lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead MIL-STD-1472-compliant Human Factors Engineering across major subsystems or full system segments.
• Serve as a technical authority for Human Factors analyses, ensuring compliance and traceability across the program.
• Integrate Human Factors Engineering across IPTs to embed human performance, safety, and usability in system design decisions.
• Cook with customer Human Factors representatives to refine and allocate system requirements across software, hardware, and test teams.
• Lead Human Factors contributions to system safety activities, including hazard analyses and mitigations aligned with MIL-STD-882.
• Drive Human Factors planning across all phases of the program lifecycle, from concept development through production and sustainment.
• Mentor early-career engineers and cross-functional teammates in Human Factors methods and best practices.
• Present Human Factors status, risks, and design impacts at technical reviews and customer engagements.
• Translate operational and user requirements into validated human-centered design inputs.
• Author and review key deliverables such as HFE reports, usability assessments, trade studies, and design recommendations.
• Collaborate with Systems, Software/Firmware, Electrical, Hardware, and Safety engineering teams to ensure full Human-System Integration.
• Lead advanced evaluations including usability studies, task analyses, workload assessments, and human performance modeling.
• Travel up to 20%.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience in Human Factors Engineering, Human Systems Integration, or Safety Engineering in complex systems.
• Experience working with hardware and software integrated systems in a development environment.
• Experience performing or leading requirements decomposition, validation, or systems engineering activities.
• We prefer active/existing DoD clearance, experience in defense, aerospace, or other safety-critical regulated environments, experience applying MIL-STD-1472 and MIL-STD-882 concepts in program execution, experience leading or contributing to usability testing, task analysis, workload assessment, or human performance modeling, experience with user-centered design practices, including wireframing, prototyping, or HMI design collaboration, experience with systems engineering lifecycle processes (e.g., requirements flow-down, verification & validation), experience influencing cross-functional teams in design tradeoffs involving human performance, safety, and operational effectiveness, and experience coordinating across multiple IPTs and stakeholders.

What We Offer

• Relocation Eligible
• Salary Range: $86,800 - $165,200 USD
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Flexible Work Schedules, Employee Assistance Program, Employee Scholar Program, Parental Leave, Paid Time Off, Holidays
• Equal Opportunity Employer