Human Factors Engineer Internship

About Clari Med, Inc.

Clari Med is a human-centered development and regulatory practice for medical products developed by Pharmaceutical and Medical device manufacturers. Our best-of-breed professional services cultivate innovation while ensuring the safe and effective use of medical products.

Operating out of Chadds Ford, PA with offices in San Jose, Boston, and Cambridge, UK, Clari Med is building a global, boutique professional services practice that provides human-centered design, development and regulatory services to medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. With a grounding in quality by design, creativity, and risk mitigation from concept inception through pilot lot delivery, we intend to reduce time to market, enhance product quality and convey a compelling risk/benefit positioning for our clients.

We will achieve this by intentionally coupling the flexibility of a boutique offering with the breadth of services of a global business, while avoiding the conflicts that come with manufacturing and clinical operations.

• We believe in excellence accelerated.
• We believe in caring and kindness.
• We believe in creating solutions through thinking without boundaries.
• We believe that everyone has a voice and we accept, embrace, and celebrate everyone for all of who they are and provide them with an environment to become who they are meant to be.
• We believe in setting and receiving expectations to ensure that there is clarity and purpose in our actions.
• We believe everyone has something to learn and something to teach - we are lifelong learners and educators.

As a Human Factors Engineer Intern at Clari Med, you will work closely with our human factors team to support usability research and engineering activities throughout the medical device development process. You will contribute to projects that help innovative companies design safe and intuitive medical devices while gaining hands‑on experience in human factors engineering and usability evaluation.

You will also support established medical device companies in adopting human factors best practices as part of regulatory and product development efforts.

• Conduct literature reviews related to human factors and medical device usability.
• Perform task analyses and support user research studies for new medical device concepts.
• Assist with expert reviews of user manuals and instructions for use (IFUs).
• Update usability risk analyses in collaboration with team members and clients.

• Assist in preparing formative and summative usability study protocols.
• Support planning and coordination of usability studies, including preparing study materials and models.
• Assist with usability study data entry and preliminary data analysis.
• Review usability study video footage to help identify root causes of observed use errors.

• Assist with participant outreach, screening, scheduling, and communications.
• Maintain recruitment trackers and participant databases.
• Coordinate study schedules and ensure all required documentation is complete.

• Prepare and/or assist with formal usability study reports.
• Create usability engineering files and contribute to Human Factors Engineering submission reports.
• Author or assist with human factors blog posts and articles on behalf of Clari Med.
• Edit human factors outreach materials and training presentations.

• Provide general administrative and project support to human factors and cross-functional teams.
• Help manage project files, trackers, and internal systems.
• Support proposal formatting and internal materials as needed.
• Assist with coordination between commercial, research, and execution teams.

• File and organize project documentation and research materials.
• Collaborate with human factors engineers and project teams on active client engagements.
• Participate in internal discussions and contribute to project planning activities.

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial…