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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all.

You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Human Factors Design Engineer

Careers that Change Lives

Medtronic aims to contribute to human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments or appliances that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

To recognize the personal worth of all employees, Medtronic provides an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success.

If you consider joining the team and you are committed to doing meaningful work, making a difference, and improving lives, you will find a culture of collaboration and innovation at Medtronic.

Starting the road to your rewarding career with them will come with competitive pay, bonuses, and benefits supporting your work-life balance.

In the role as Human Factors Design Engineer, you will work with the Product Design team to advance existing technology or introduce novel technologies and therapies, specifically in Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence.

You will work with key stakeholders to understand, define, and design the user interface of the products in HealthCast Acute Care and Monitoring.

Additionally, the individual will be responsible for building tight collaboration and a culture of trust within the Digital Health and AI organization.

A Day in the Life

As a Human Factors Design Engineer, you will be accountable for supporting and owning the human factors activities required for HealthCast projects.

The Human Factors Design Engineer will also collaborate with the UI/UX Designers to ensure designs are meeting user needs established.

Responsibilities Include

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)

Must Have

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years' experience in the medical device industry in systems, digital or software development with proven record of accomplishment. Knowledge of Agile methodology is nice to have.

Experience in 5+ major product or portfolio releases. Experience in a regulated product industry is nice to have.

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.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

For Office Roles

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers.

Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.

We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl.

PR) locations (USD)

$144, $217,200.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California.

The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location.

Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.

Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below

About Medtronic

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people.

From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves.

We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc.

("Medtronic") in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment.

Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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