Principal Human Factor Engineer

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on 27 Feb 2026.

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

In the role as Human Factors Design Engineer, you will work with the Product Design team to advance existing technology or introduce novel technologies and therapies, specifically in Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence. You will work with key stakeholders to understand, define, and design the user interface of the products in Health Cast Acute Care and Monitoring. Additionally, the individual will be responsible for building tight collaboration and a culture of trust within the Digital Health and AI organization.

As a Human Factors Design Engineer, you will be accountable for supporting and owning the human factors activities required for Health Cast projects. The Human Factors Design Engineer will also collaborate with the UI/UX Designers to ensure designs are meeting user needs established.

• Strong understanding of user experience principles, which are customer facing and additionally medical device centered.
• Applies human centered principles, methodologies, and technologies to the design of software and hardware medical device products.
• Develops and implements research methodologies to test and evaluate new concepts and developmental prototypes used in all phases of product development and processes.
• Designs and executes tests to simulate product use for the purposes of user need investigation, concept exploration/selection/refinement, requirements development, use-related risk identification and formal usability validation with intended users.
• Responsible for defining and maintaining the human factors process for the organization.
• Establishes user needs to ensure optimized interfaces and overall user experience.
• Identifies and analyzes problems or risks, performs human factors investigations, and develops and implements research and analysis plans to inform the design direction of new product development.
• Responsible for human factors research and activities for a single product while supporting human factors needs on other products.
• Responsible for collaboration with other Human Factors Design Engineers to align on design briefs and expectations for the program.
• Collaboration with Chief Designer and other UI/UX designers to conduct design research, build journey maps and user personas.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously and keep organized and multitask.
• Understanding of business needs with product management experience.
• Understanding of stage gate processes for projects within the medical device project lifecycle.
• Organizational collaborator on DH&AI enabled initiatives to leverage cross disciplinary and globally distributed teams to craft high-quality products and services that customers love and drive preference.
• Collaborate with other leaders to ensure successful development, release, and launch of world‑class product (portfolio/program).

• 10+ years’ experience in the medical device industry in systems, digital or software development with proven record of accomplishment. Knowledge of Agile methodology is nice to have.
• Experience in 5+ major product or portfolio releases. Experience in a regulated product industry is nice to have.
• Ability to quickly understand complex system behaviors, engineering problems, technical and architectural constraints.
• A robust design portfolio articulating past design work.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an aptitude for convincing others, both internally and externally, of the value of their ideas.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this…