Flight Deck UX & HMI Engineer

Morson Edge (Canada); Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

We are seeking a highly capable Human Factors professional to join the Flight Deck Design and Human Factors team. You will contribute to User Centered Design for avionics HMI, cockpit interfaces, and related systems, ensuring compatibility with operators' perceptual and cognitive needs in real-world operation.

You will conduct prototyping, simulations, usability tests, and scenario-based evaluations, collaborate with flight crews and maintenance teams, and create documentation for HF activities

Qualifications

• Experience in cognitive ergonomics including workload and situation awareness.
• Knowledge of aerospace industry and regulatory environment.
• Proficient with prototyping, interface development, and simulation tools.
• Ability to plan and execute UX experiments and tests for validation.

Responsibilities

• Participate in engineering-related User Centered Design activities related to Flight Deck and Human Machine Interface Design (HMI).
• Deploy cognitive and physical ergonomics expertise to support tests and analysis.
• Elaborate and conduct scenario-based testing of Flight Deck systems
• Develop system HMI simulations.
• Interact with Flight Crews to develop and assess overall cockpit usability.
• Support requirements development, task analysis, and human error analysis.
• Participate in flight deck and UX development and evaluation in line with BA flight deck philosophy.
• Create and manage documentation for Human Factors activities related to new aircraft, significant cockpit modifications and sustaining programs.
• Collaborate with human factors specialists in maintenance, manufacturing and maintainability.

Skills

Cognitive ergonomics

Physical ergonomics

Aerospace industry knowledge

Prototyping & simulation tools

Experiment planning

Tools

Prototype tools

Interface development

Simulation software

Job description

We are seeking a highly capable Human Factors professional to join the Flight Deck Design and Human Factors team. You will contribute to User Centered Design for avionics HMI, cockpit interfaces, and related systems, ensuring compatibility with operators' perceptual and cognitive needs in real-world operation.

You will conduct prototyping, simulations, usability tests, and scenario-based evaluations, collaborate with flight crews and maintenance teams, and create documentation for HF activities