Human Factors Design Engineer

Company Description It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive . As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care , our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion —have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world. The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare , you’ll find your purpose here. Job Description Primary Function of the Position    As part of the Intuitive Human Factors team, the Senior Human Factors Engineer works closely with designers, clinical engineers, system and software engineers, technical product managers, regulatory affairs, and other important functional teams.

The Senior Human Factors Engineer is a key contributor in informing and guiding development of new products, and ensuring that those products are feasible, viable and desirable.   The Human Factors Design Engineer will serve as the Human Factors (HF) Lead on new and/or sustaining product development teams within Intuitive. Within the project team, the Human Factors Design Engineer (HFDE), works closely with designers, clinical engineers, system and software engineers, product managers, regulatory affairs, and other cross functional teams.

They have primary responsibility to conduct research to gain a deep understanding of users, uses and use environments; perform task analysis, analyze and characterize usability considerations and use-related risks; conduct iterative formative evaluations with end-users to realize the impact of design concepts on user workflow, behavior and performance; translate user needs into usability requirements to inform design; and be accountable for final usability validation.

The Human Factors Design Engineer also works closely with the regulatory, quality and design controls teams to define the submission strategy from HF perspective and be accountable for the usability engineering documentation required for submission to medical device regulatory agencies. The Human Factors Design Engineer position reports to a Manager within the broader Human Factors (HF) organization at Intuitive.

  Essential Job Duties   Research:    Plan, collect and synthesize data to generate insights on how and why users interact with Intuitive products through various techniques including interviews, simulations, direct observations, workflow labs, human performance research, persona development, usability testing, mixed methods research, discovery from known use problems, etc.

 Represent Intuitive during interactions with end-user clinicians and customers in multiple international markets to gather design insights in a highly professional manner, during formative research activities. De-risk design strategies by identifying root causes and conduct root cause analyses that account for human performance influencers underlying the user experience Design:    Analyze, define and evaluate workflow and user interface designs.

Negotiate design recommendations and improvements to prevent hazardous situations related to use errors and improve usability. Accountable for establishment, authoring and management of usability design inputs. Translate findings from formative research activities into insights that are used to define evidence- based user requirements and user interface design requirements to inform use