Senior Human Factors Engineer

Location: US-MA-TEWKSBURY-TB1 ~ 50 Apple Hill Dr ~ ASSABET BLDG

Date Posted:

Country: United States of America

Position Role Type: Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Security Clearance Type: DoD Clearance:
Secret

Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1.

Location: Tewksbury, MA

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Senior Human Factors Engineer to join us onsite in a closed area program with the LCE team in Tewksbury, MA.

• Leading development and execution of MIL-STD-1472 compliant Human Factors Engineering programs across major subsystems or full system segments.
• Serving as a technical authority for Human Factors analyses, ensuring compliance, consistency, and traceability across program efforts.
• Driving integration of Human Factors Engineering across IPTs, ensuring human performance, safety, and usability are fully embedded in system design decisions.
• Coordinating directly with customer Human Factors representatives to negotiate, interpret, and refine system requirements and ensure proper allocation across software, hardware, and test domains.
• Leading Human Factors contributions to system safety efforts, including hazard analyses, risk reduction strategies, and design mitigations aligned with MIL-STD-882 concepts.
• Owning Human Factors planning activities across program lifecycle phases from concept development through production, and sustainment.
• Providing technical direction and mentorship to early career engineers and cross functional teammates in Human Factors methods, analyses, and best practices.
• Briefing Human Factors status, risks, and design implications at technical reviews, design gates, and customer engagements.
• Translating complex operational and user requirements into validated human centered design inputs for engineering teams.
• Authoring and reviewing high visibility internal and customer facing deliverables including HFE reports, trade studies, usability assessments, and design recommendations.
• Collaborating across Systems Engineering, Software/Firmware, Electrical, Hardware, and Safety engineering teams to ensure end-to-end human system integration.
• Contributing to or leading development of advanced usability evaluations, cognitive task analyses, workload assessments, and human performance modeling approaches.
• Interfacing with other engineering functions:
  Systems Engineering, Software or Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering.

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience in Human Factors Engineering, Human Systems Integration, or Safety Engineering in complex systems.
• Experience working with hardware and software integrated systems in a development environment.
• Experience performing or leading requirements decomposition, validation, or systems engineering activities.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.

• Experience in defense, aerospace, or other safety-critical regulated environments.
• Experience applying MIL-STD-1472 and MIL-STD-882 concepts in program execution.
• Experience leading or contributing to usability testing, task analysis, workload assessment, or human performance modeling.
• Experience with user‑centered design practices, including wire framing, prototyping, or HMI design collaboration.
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle processes (e.g., requirements flow‑down, verification & validation).
• Experience influencing cross‑functional teams in design tradeoffs involving human performance, safety, and operational effectiveness.
• Experience coordinating across multiple IPTs and stakeholders.

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