Senior Human Factors Engineer

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and Med Tech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

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R&D Product Development

Industrial Design & Human Factors

Scientific/Technology

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson Med Tech is recruiting for a Senior Human Factors Engineer, to join the OTTAVA™ team. This location for this position is Cincinnati, OH. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world.

Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at

As a Senior Human Factors Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering on sophisticated HF work streams as a key individual contributor while providing guidance and support across a range of HF activities. You'll bring experience and creativity that will help the team navigate interesting questions and challenges in the world of medical robotics. Our inclusive culture heavily emphasizes growth and development, and you'll take part in the continued advancement of HF practices and help uphold a high standard for the team.

• Support the development and execution of human factors and usability strategies from initial concept through post-market support, facilitate usability efforts across product lines and programs with general direction.
• Address sophisticated issues that affect the program team, contributing to projects that involve identifying and analyzing multiple factors, while applying attention to detail in choosing appropriate methods and techniques for evaluations.
• Collaborate with R&D, Marketing, Medical Safety, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Engineering, and Quality Engineering to design, evaluate, and provide guidance on solutions and their user-related impact throughout the entire care process, ensuring a balance of the needs of users, surgeons, hospital staff, and patients in alignment with the technical development roadmap.
• Prepare precise and concise usability engineering documents for multiple projects in a timely manner, including task analyses, usability risk assessments, use specifications, test reports and root cause analyses, and usability engineering plans.
• Act as internal expert and advisor on human factors (including ergonomic and anthropometric principles) and continuously improve our HF process to align it with standards and guidances while also customizing it for the specific realities of our business.
• Mentor other engineers on project and supervise/direct third party contractors/consultants; including reviews of results.
• Network with multi-functional team beyond own area of expertise, actively facilitate multi-functional decision-making, and advocate for the voice of the customer from a human factors and technical application perspective in new product development. Recognize the importance of alignment and negotiation to ensure seamless collaboration and successful outcomes.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Human Factors Engineering (HFE),…