Job Title

Usability Engineer

Job Description

Usability Engineer in Cambridge, MA

In this role, you have the opportunity to help us advance healthcare by creating innovative solutions for healthcare providers as well as patients. In healthcare, there are many opportunities and challenges to improve patients lives by designing solutions for patients and the healthcare organizations that provide care to them.

Your role:

Planning and executing the human-centered design process in alignment with project stakeholders.
Understanding and specifying the context of the use through best-practice usability methodology.
Evaluating design concepts and prototypes with the involvement of representative users. Collaborating with designers and engineers to improve designs iteratively and incrementally.
Focusing on the customer, collaborating, partnering, and co-creating with internal and external stakeholders, with clear and impactful communication and articulation of design decision-making. Analyzing, documenting, and communicating insights from user feedback clearly and effectively.
Contributing to effective teamwork, receiving guidance, and being a proactive team player, offering a point of view.

Youre the right fit if:

You have 5+ years of usability engineering experience
You have a bachelor’s degree in human Factors Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design Research or related discipline, or equivalent professional training experience.

Your skills include experience with Usability standards and guidelines such as IEC 62366, FDA Guidance for Human-Factors and HE75.
Your skills include experience with human-centered design methods, such as focus groups, interviews, contextual inquiries, usability evaluation, documentation, and reporting.

You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive, and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
You independently work on project activities with a good understanding of budget and time constraints, driving efficiency, and facilitating design quality reviews.
You are willing to work together with or consult business stakeholders, actively manage relationships, challenge the status quo to drive innovation, and step up for the user.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we wont stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Cambridge, MA is $103,000 to $177,000.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.  

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Cambridge, MA.

This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran and maintains a drug-free workplace.