Usability Designer

Philips Lighting Co.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

401k match

HSA with company contribution

Stock purchase plan

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Usability Designer for the Ambulatory Monitoring & Diagnostics (AM&D) team in Cambridge, MA. The role focuses on shaping products to improve patient outcomes and clinician experiences worldwide, championing user-centered design, and ensuring safety and usability across a global portfolio of Philips health technology solutions.

You will lead usability activities across development phases, perform user research, and contribute to safety- and regulatory-compliant designs in

Qualifications

• 2+ years of usability engineering experience in medical devices.
• 4+ years preferred in usability engineering.
• Experience across the product lifecycle including user needs, task analysis, validation and post-market follow-up.
• Understanding regulatory requirements for medical device usability (FDA guidance and IEC 62366-1).

Responsibilities

• Define usability activities across all development phases with cross-functional teams.
• Conduct user research, task analysis, and develop use scenarios.
• Provide usability input to design of user-centered and safe-to-use solutions.
• Lead usability FMEA activities.
• Plan, execute, and report usability evaluations and ensure findings are addressed.
• Conduct summative evaluations and create the usability engineering file per FDA/IEC 62366-1.

Skills

Usability engineering

Regulatory knowledge

Ergonomics knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in HCI/ Human Factors

Job description

Usability Designer# Careers## Usability DesignerApply: Cambridge (US), Massachusetts, United States: Full time: Posted Today: 583407### Job TitleUsability Designer### Job DescriptionAs a Usability Designer within Philips' Ambulatory Monitoring & Diagnostics (AM&D) business, you will play a critical role in shaping products that improve patient outcomes and clinician experiences around the world. You'll champion user-centered design, ensuring our solutions are safe, effective, and intuitive while advocating for the needs of patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals across a global portfolio of innovative products and services.**Your role:*** Defining usability activities across all development phases in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, including UX designers, clinical specialists, product managers, researchers, and system engineers.* Conducting user research, task analysis, and developing use scenarios.* Providing usability input to the design of user-centered and safe-to-use solutions.* Leading usability FMEA activities.* Planning, executing, and reporting usability evaluations and ensuring critical findings are addressed.* Conducting summative evaluations and creating the usability engineering file in compliance with FDA guidance and IEC 62366-1.* Analyzing post-market and telemetry data to identify usability issues. **You're the right fit if:*** You’ve acquired 2+ years of experience (4+ preferred) in usability engineering for complex systems, preferably within the medical device industry, along with experience across the product lifecycle, including user needs, task analysis, validation, and post-market follow-up.* Your skills include: + Knowledge of cognitive and physical ergonomics. + Familiarity with quality management systems and risk management principles, and the ability to produce high-quality formal documentation. + An understanding of regulatory requirements for medical device usability, including FDA guidance and IEC 62366-1 (highly preferred).* You have a bachelor's or master's degree in human factors engineering, human-computer interaction (HCI), cognitive science, product or interaction design or similar discipline.* You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.* You’re an excellent communicator, both written and verbal.**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.This is an office role.**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 improve the lives of others.* Learn more about our business.* Discover our rich and exciting history.* Learn more about our purpose.* Learn more about our culture.**Philips Transparency Details**The pay range for this position in MA is $129,000 to $205,000.The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.**Additional Information**US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.Company relocation benefits **will not** be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in **or** within commuting distance to **Cambridge, MA.****#ConnectedCare**This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.*Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.*