Clinical UX Human Factors Researcher

Clinical UX Human Factors Researcher – Preoperative & Sleep Workflows

We are currently pipelining for a Clinical UX / Human Factors Researcher role slated for Q2 2026. This researcher will lead formative usability studies and human-centered design for a novel at-home physiologic monitoring platform, translating complex physiologic risk signals into actionable, clinician-facing insights.

This is a hands-on role with direct responsibility for ensuring usability, interpretability, and clinical integration, supporting federally funded Phase I NIH goals.

Contractual Engagement: 400 hours (approx. 2.5 months) in the United States (Remote)

Why This Opportunity Is Different

• Direct clinical impact – Help shape clinician-facing outputs that improve perioperative decision-making
• Human-centered design – Conduct real-world studies with anesthesiologists and pre-op staff
• NIH-backed relevance – Your work directly supports Phase I usability and clinical feasibility deliverables
• Complex signal visualization – Work with advanced ML-derived physiologic risk signatures
• Flexible work options – Remote contract work that balances focus, collaboration, and flexibility
• Growth– Contribute to early-stage product design with potential to extend or convert to longer-term roles

What You’ll Do

• Conduct formative human-factors research with anesthesiologists, perioperative teams, and pre-op staff
• Map existing clinical workflows and identify integration points for risk outputs
• Translate ML-derived physiologic risk signatures into clear, interpretable visualizations
• Design low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes of clinician dashboards and output summaries
• Support usability testing, including System Usability Scale (SUS) scoring, task analysis, NIH documentation
• Ensure that risk outputs are actionable and aligned with perioperative decision-making needs

What You Bring

• Prefer MS or PhD in Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, HCI, Biomedical Informatics, or related field
• Experience working in clinical environments, ideally anesthesia or perioperative care
• Skilled in prototyping and usability testing tools such as Figma, Sketch, or similar
• Comfortable translating complex data into intuitive visualizations for clinical users
• Ability to lead human-centered design activities in early-stage, research-driven environments
• Bonus: Experience with decision-support systems or physiologic data visualization

About: Early-stage medical device company developing a patented, skin-worn wearable that enables sleep-lab–level physiologic monitoring, with a focus on identifying undiagnosed sleep apnea before surgery. Addressing a major perioperative safety gap where a large percentage of patients undergo anesthesia with undetected sleep-related risk. Building tech that directly improves clinical decision making and patient outcomes. Small team, highly technical, mission-driven, working with wearable devices, physiologic signal processing, ML, and clinical research through federally funded programs.

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