Human Factor Engineer - Ztek Consulting INC

Human Factors Engineers and Designers, working on emerging cardiac ablation technologies.
This role will support the design of next generation cardiac ablation products, shaping the experience of its users.
Advancing the treatment of heart and vascular disease through breakthrough medical technologies, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Position Responsibilities
Provide human factors support to R&D teams
Responsible for supporting activities necessary to complete human factors engineering projects. Activities include, but are not limited to:
Conducting ethnographic user research to identify user needs
Translating user needs to requirements and product design concepts
Developing prototypes to explore and validate product design concepts
Performing workflow, task and use error analyses
Conducting Formative Usability testing
Conducting Summative Validation testing
Support program teams to ensure sound human factors principles are considered and implemented

Required Qualifications
M.S. degree in Human Factors Engineering, or a related discipline required (e.g., Product Design, Usability Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, etc.)
3+ years of relevant human factors/usability engineering or design experience
Ability to apply knowledge of human factors principles (human performance and limitations perceptual, cognitive, motor skills, anthropomorphic) and techniques (user research, user-interface design, usability testing) to the design, development, and evaluation of hardware and/or software products
Ability to support Human Factors activities across the product lifecycle, including ethnographic research, user needs identification, workflow and task analysis, requirements development, user interface design, user error analysis, usability and validation testing
Ability to work with cross-functional teams and provide technical leadership
Familiarity or experience with software and/or hardware user-interface design
Ability to interface with customers in a highly professional manner
Ability to quickly assimilate advanced domain knowledge
Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
Excellent collaboration and organization skills
10% Travel, including Internationally, by plane and by car

ABOUT Ztek:

Website:www.ztekinc.com

Ztek Consulting Inc is a minority- and woman-owned business enterprise that leverages a unique blend of human talent, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence to provide customized talent management solutions for clients. Ztek's diversity-focused hiring models have proven successful, particularly in hiring veterans. The company's veteran-focused hiring and deployment program, Z-V.E.T, matches skilled veterans with clients' needs in various areas.

Disclaimer:

Ztek is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Ztek is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at hrd@ztekinc.com Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Ztek encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Ztek does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. 1324b.