Flight Deck UX & Human Factors Engineer

SOGECLAIR; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SOGECLAIR is seeking an experienced Flight Deck Integration & Human Factors Engineer to support the design, integration, evaluation, and certification of advanced aircraft flight deck systems.

This role focuses on ensuring that hardware, software, cockpit interfaces, pilot tasks, and the operating environment align with the cognitive, perceptual, and physical capabilities of flight crews, contributing to UCD, HMI, HF, ergonomics, usability testing, simulation, and flight deck certification

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and related fields.
• Experience in Human Factors, cognitive or physical ergonomics.
• Experience with UCD, HMI development, UX, usability testing or HF engineering.
• Ability to develop experiments, simulations, evaluations and V&V.
• Experience with prototyping, interface development, modeling or simulation tools.
• Strong technical writing and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in User-Centered Design activities for flight decks, avionics and HMI.
• Support cockpit interface design through prototyping, simulation and usability testing.
• Apply cognitive and physical ergonomics to cockpit design.
• Develop and conduct scenario-based evaluations and testing of flight deck systems.
• Develop and use HMI simulations and prototypes to evaluate system functionality.
• Collaborate with pilots and flight crews to assess cockpit usability and workload.
• Support development of flight deck and HMI requirements.
• Conduct task analysis, workload assessments, and usability evaluations.
• Evaluate cockpit designs from physical and cognitive HF perspectives.
• Support Verification & Validation activities for flight deck systems.
• Contribute to flight deck UX development and design philosophy.
• Maintain HF engineering documentation for aircraft development and certification.

Skills

User-Centered Design

HMI development

User Experience

Usability testing

Ergonomics

Cognitive ergonomics

Technical writing

Pilot interaction

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Industrial Design, Human Factors, Ergonomics

Tools

Prototyping tools

Modeling software

Simulation tools

Job description

SOGECLAIR is seeking an experienced Flight Deck Integration & Human Factors Engineer to support the design, integration, evaluation, and certification of advanced aircraft flight deck systems.

This role focuses on ensuring that hardware, software, cockpit interfaces, pilot tasks, and the operating environment align with the cognitive, perceptual, and physical capabilities of flight crews, contributing to UCD, HMI, HF, ergonomics, usability testing, simulation, and flight deck certification