Usability Engineer IGTs

Usability Engineer IGTs

Usability Engineer IGTs

You’ll take the lead in crafting and executing usability plans, working across all stages of the design process to identify and improve usability, safety, and the overall user experience. Your insights will directly shape how users interact with our products. You'll also play a key role in supporting product validation efforts, ensuring our solutions meet the highest standards.

Your role:

• Delivering the Usability requirements & Usability evidence throughout the product creation and post market process, ensuring the product release meets regulatory, customer- & business needs.
• Perform workflow analysis and user research to understand the context of use, elicit user needs and usability requirements.
• Define usability engineering plans and organize usability activities in co-operation with business partners (e.g. project managers, clinical marketing).
• Conduct user testing and expert reviews (e.g. cognitive walkthroughs) for the evaluation of Philips IGT-S products (Image Guided Therapy Systems) using established usability engineering practices.
• Advise on the usability aspect of design changes with the design team.
• Ensure that usability engineering is applied according to international standards (such as IEC 62366, FDA Guidance on Human factors)
• Ensure good co-operation with other subject areas within the department and IGT organization, with Philips Design, and with similar fields in the other Philips Healthcare business units.

You're the right fit if:

Minimum requirements

Minimum required Education:
Master's Degree in (UX) Design, Interaction Design, Human Factors Engineering, Human-Technology Interaction, Cognitive Science, Industrial Design Engineering or equivalent. Minimum required Experience:
Minimum 2 years of experience with Master’s in areas such as User Experience (UX) Design, Information Architecture, Usability Testing or equivalent.

Preferred requirements:

• PhD with focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Usability
• 2-5 years’ experience as a Usability Engineer
• Proven knowledge of Human factors and interaction design, Usability methodologies, processes, and standards
• Knowledge of the healthcare domain is a plus
• Excellent communication & collaboration skills
• Project and stakeholder management skills

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.

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. • Learn more about our business. • Discover our rich and exciting history. • Learn more about our purpose. If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

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