Senior / Staff Human Factors/ Usability Engineer (m/f/d)

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Bötzingen, Baden-Württemberg
Junior
Healthtech • Other • Robotics • Biotech • Manufacturing
Together with our customers, we're on a mission to make healthcare better.
The Role
As a Senior Human Factors Engineer, you will evaluate and develop innovative medical devices, ensuring safety and effectiveness through user research and collaboration. You'll conduct studies, analyze data, and present design recommendations, while working closely with cross-functional teams to integrate human-centered design.
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Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

As a Senior /Staff Human Factors Engineer (m/f/d), you will leverage your deep understanding of human performance and human factors techniques to evaluate and contribute to the development of our innovative medical devices. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will drive the integration of human-centered design principles throughout the product lifecycle. Your work will directly impact the usability and safety of medical devices that make a difference in patient outcomes and healthcare practices.

What you will do:

  • Research, evaluate and validate medical device systems for safety and effectiveness.

  • Develop and execute Human Factors study protocols, including user interface evaluations.

  • Contribute to Product Risk Management and Human Factors support across the product lifecycle.

  • Plan and conduct end user evaluations, analyze data, and present design recommendations.

  • Demonstrate a deep understanding of customer needs and product usage.

  • Collaborate with stakeholders (clinical specialists, industrial designers, engineers, product& program managers, marketing, technical writers and vendors) to ensure project success and foster positive working relationships as a key member of the team.

What you will need:

Required:

  • Degree in Human Factors Engineering, Usability Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, Biomedical Engineering or similar.

  • 2+ years of work experience in a highly regulated industry. Based on the experience the seniority level can be adjusted.

  • Familiar with requirement and verification practices and Requirements Management Tools.

  • Collaborative Team Player with strong communication skills to effectively convey highly technical information.

Preferred: 

  • Experience with relevant standards and regulations, such as ISO 62366-1, ISO 62366-2, 21 CFR part 820, and FDA guidance.

  • Certifications in usability and human subjects research.

Diversity is important to us. We welcome applications from people regardless of their ethnic, national or social origin, gender, disability, age or sexual identity. 

This position is initially limited until the end of 2026.

Travel Percentage: 20%

Top Skills

Biomedical Engineering
Cognitive Psychology
Human Factors Engineering
Usability Engineering
The Company
HQ: Kalamazoo, MI
51,000 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1941

What We Do

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at www.stryker.com.

Together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better.

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