Engineer 3 - Human Factors

As a Human Factors Engineer 3 at Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, you will be a key player in designing medical devices that support blood and cell therapies. Your role will involve leading human-centered design initiatives to ensure the safety, intuitiveness, and effectiveness of products for both clinicians and patients. Collaborating with various teams including R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Clinical, you will conduct user research, usability testing, and risk assessments to optimize device interfaces and workflows. If you are passionate about innovation, improving patient outcomes, and thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment, this is an opportunity for you to make a significant impact in healthcare. **Essential Duties:** - Lead the strategy, planning, and execution of human factors engineering activities for product development projects. - Conduct user-centered research including interviews, contextual inquiries, task analyses, and anthropomorphic evaluations. - Ensure compliance with HFE processes, Company policies, IEC Usability standards, AAMI Human Factors standards, and FDA Human Factors Guidances. - Analyze field data, review literature, and identify usability issues with on-market products. - Collaborate in prototype development of user interfaces, including software, graphical user-interface, hardware, and labeling. - Support the development of internal tools for human factors data capture, analysis, and testing. - Contribute to identifying and developing design and development process improvements. - Reinforce customer empathy and human-centered design approach across the organization. **Responsibilities may include:** - Providing work direction to technicians and junior engineers. - Collaborating with other functional groups, technical disciplines, and levels of management. **Minimum Qualification Requirements:** - **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Usability/Human Factors Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related research-based degree preferred. - **Experience:** Minimum 4 years of experience in Human Factors/Usability in medical devices preferred. - **Skills:** Strong technical leadership skills, knowledge of human factors, design controls, quality, and risk management regulations for medical devices, ability to influence without authority, innovative in user-centered design approaches, strong problem-solving skills, and effective communication skills. **Location:** Thiruvananthapuram, India - Onsite. **Travel:** Requires travel based on business needs. **Physical Requirements:** General Labor Environment requirements include the use of personal protective equipment, reading, speaking, hearing, walking, bending, standing, stretching/reaching, hand/finger dexterity, and occasional lifting up to 50 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities. Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies is a part of the Terumo Group, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company reached $1 billion in revenue in 2019 and employs nearly 7,000 associates globally. Terumo manufactures devices, disposable sets, and solutions at facilities in multiple countries, enabling them to serve customers in over 130 countries. The core values of Respect, Integrity, Care, Quality, and Creativity guide the company's actions and mission of contributing to society through healthcare.,