Usability Designer

Philips Iberica SAU; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

401k with up to 7% match

HSA with company contribution

Stock purchase plan

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Philips Iberica SAU in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Usability Designer to shape products that enhance patient outcomes and clinician experiences. The role requires collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, conducting user research, and ensuring products are user-centered and compliant with regulatory standards.

Ideal candidates have at least 2 years of experience in usability engineering, familiarity with medical devices, and excellent communication skills. This office role demands presence in the company’s facilities at least three days a week.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in usability engineering for complex systems.
• Experience with medical devices preferred.
• Communication skills for effective collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define usability activities across all development phases.
• Conduct user research and task analysis.
• Lead usability evaluations and ensure findings are addressed.

Skills

Knowledge of cognitive and physical ergonomics

Familiarity with quality management systems

Ability to produce high-quality formal documentation

Understanding of regulatory requirements for medical device usability

Excellent written communication

Excellent verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in human factors engineering

Job description

Job Title

Usability Designer

Job Description

As 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 in usability engineering for complex systems, preferably with medical devices. This is complemented by experience across the product lifecycle, from user needs and task analysis to 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 (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.

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.

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.

Requisition Status

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.