Sr. Human Factors Engineer

About the Role

The Intervention Oncology and Embolization (IO&E) R&D team is looking for an experienced human factors engineer with extraordinary potential to apply their expertise in the development of complex medical devices and systems such as Electronic Medical Equipment (EME) for class 2 & 3 devices, combination medical devices, implantable products, hardware and/or software only products. As a member of the IO&E R&D team, you will make important contributions to the development of life‑changing medical devices through analysis of voice of the customer, user experience, formative, and summative analysis for a structured development process that proceeds from concept to production to operation.

As a Senior Engineer, you will have the opportunity to own and drive portions of the design process while being part of an experienced design team providing mentorship and technical discipline growth for the organization.

This position will follow an onsite schedule, requiring 4‑5 days in‑office per week from our Arden Hills, MN site.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

• Work cross‑functionally with engineering groups, quality, regulatory, marketing, clinical, and R&D to ensure that products are safe and meet the needs of customers.
• Conduct early research, interviews, heuristic analysis, and contextual inquiry to gather design inputs ensuring customer and device interface quality needs are met for product development.
• Collaborate with Design Engineering, Design Quality Assurance (DQA) and technical writing staff to inform both usability engineering plan and risk documentation.
• Document product task and use error analysis by defining intended user profiles, use flow, use environments, tasks and potential use errors and associated hazards to inform design and potential risk mitigations.
• Define user interface specifications to generate design inputs/outputs, in support of developing mature system requirements that are testable from a usability perspective.
• Plan, write, conduct, and report on formative and summative usability studies for medical device products including EME. Document the Usability Engineering activities and prepare the Human Factors Usability Engineering Summary report.
• Continuously improve processes and work methodologies (using agile/lean principles to eliminate waste) to help solve complex, interdisciplinary problems by interfacing with peers/cross‑functional groups to benefit all of BSC.
• Assist Regulatory with product submissions.

• BS/BA in Engineering, Marketing, Psychology or Industrial Design.
• Required minimum years of relevant work experience: 6 yrs with BS, or 4 yrs with MS.
• Strong medical device development experience and working with health care providers.
• Experience in Contextual Inquiry / gathering Design Inputs, Task and Use Error Analysis, and complex use flows.
• Formative and summative study design and execution.
• Documentation of usability study results (usability reports).

• Experience in console design, including Agile software development and usability testing with software prototyping tools.
• Ability to solve complex problems with root cause analysis, including designing and executing experimental plans and using statistical methodologies to drive data‑based decisions.
• Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical inputs from multiple and varied sources.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently to plan, schedule, and execute activities necessary to meet project timelines.
• Discipline and standards knowledge specific to Human Factors Engineering.
• Contributions to the Human Factors / User Experience community.

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Minimum Salary: $82,600
Maximum Salary: $156,900

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see —will vary…