Senior Human Factors Engineer

Your Role at Baxter

This role involves collaborating with clinicians, engineers, and cross-functional partners to improve usability, safety, and efficiency for hospital beds, mobile and overhead patient lift systems, and other product portfolios. Your efforts will directly support developing new products and sustaining engineering initiatives.

• Plan and complete human factors engineering activities, including project plans, timelines, and deliverables.
• Conduct use-related risk assessments, identify potential use errors, and support risk mitigation activities.
• Plan, complete, and detail formative and summative usability studies in compliance with applicable regulations and standards.
• Develop and maintain human factors documentation, including user needs, task analyses, interface specifications, and study reports.
• Communicate human factors progress, findings, and risks to project teams and key collaborators.
• Lead and deliver human factors work streams for complex programs or multiple concurrent projects with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate with R&D, marketing, clinical, and engineering teams to evaluate concepts, improve usability, and drive user-centered design decisions.
• Apply human factors, usability, and user experience guidelines to support continuous improvement and successful product development.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Human Factors Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related area.
• 3+ years of human factors/usability engineering experience in medical devices or another regulated industry.
• Experience applying human factors methods, including user research, task analysis, use-related risk analysis, and usability testing.
• Knowledge of IEC 62366-1, FDA Human Factors Guidance, ANSI/AAMI HE75, ISO 14971, and medical device design controls.
• Experience authoring human factors documentation, protocols, and reports to support development controls and regulatory submissions.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability evaluation methods, and qualitative data analysis.
• Ability to independently solve complex usability challenges, develop actionable recommendations, and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Preferred:
  Advanced degree or equivalent experience in a related field along with experience conducting IRB-reviewed studies, FDA submissions, or human factors research within clinical or healthcare settings.