Principle Human Factor Engineer

Medtronic is a leader in healthcare technology, committed to innovation and improving lives. The Principal Human Factor Engineer will work with the Product Design team to advance technology in Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, focusing on user interface design and collaboration within the organization.

Responsibilities

• 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)

Skills

• 10+ years' experience in the medical device industry in systems, digital or software development with proven record of accomplishment
• Experience in 5+ major product or portfolio releases
• 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 and communication skills with an aptitude for convincing others, both internally and externally, of the value of their ideas
• 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)
• Knowledge of Agile methodology is nice to have
• Experience in a regulated product industry is nice to have

Benefits

• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

Company Overview

• Medtronic is a healthcare technology company that designs and develops AI-based products and solutions for the medical industry. It was founded in 1949, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.medtronic.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Medtronic has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 349 in 2025, 387 in 2024, 291 in 2023, 310 in 2022, 300 in 2021, 261 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.