Senior Systems Usability Engineer

Senior Systems Usability Engineer

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, assessing product documentation for application deliverables and processes, generating and executing on usability and product validation strategies, and managing 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 the 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: We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.