Senior Systems Usability Engineer

Job Description

The Senior Systems Usability Engineer will lead usability engineering efforts, product validation, and project management within complex systems development. This role involves analyzing system requirements, assess product documentation for application deliverables and processes, generate and execute on usability and product validation strategies and manage system and application process optimizations. The role will work under limited supervision, serving as a senior technical authority while driving cross-functional initiatives to enhance usability, safety, and efficiency in product design.

Your role will include:

• System Analysis and Design:
• Analyze system requirements and create detailed design specifications to optimize performance and reliability.
• Usability Engineering Leadership:
• Define and execute usability engineering strategies, including creating use scenarios and usability engineering plans, identifying known use errors, and conducting formative and summative evaluations.
• Develop usability engineering plans and ensure integration of usability considerations throughout all development phases.
• Product Validation:
• Drive the design validation strategy and evidence collection throughout the project lifecycle to ensure products meet user needs, regulatory requirements, intended use, and claims.
• Project Management:
• Manage projects (e.g. product validation) from initiation to deployment, including design and build phases, while overseeing scope, resources, planning, and reporting.
• Provide comprehensive usability inputs to project teams, including cognitive, physical, and situational user information.
• Mentorship and Innovation:
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering their growth in usability and systems engineering principles.

You're the right fit if:

• PhD or Master’s (MSc) degree in Human Technology Interaction, Systems, Physics, Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a business R&D environment as a systems usability engineer.
• Strong preference for experience in a regulated environment or a medical device company.
• Proven track record in implementing and applying usability engineering concepts and supporting product validation and clinical studies.

• Skills and Attributes:
• Analytical and architectural thinking, with a system-wide perspective and physical insight.
• Flexibility and a hands-on mentality to deliver sustainable results and creative solutions.
• Excellent reporting and documentation skills.
• Strong consultancy skills and ability to connect with business stakeholders.
• Customer-focused, with excellent communication skills and a team-oriented approach.
• Fluency in English.

*This position is located in Netherlands, it isn't open for relocation.*

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.

About Philips

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About Us

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.

Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

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