Usability Engineer / Senior Usability Designer

Job description

**Job Description** Help shape the future of healthcare by designing safe and intuitive image guided surgery and diagnostic imaging systems. As a Usability Designer, you will apply human factors and usability expertise to ensure Philips IGT products meet user needs and regulatory requirements—enabling clinicians to deliver faster, more effective care. **Your role:** - **Make a greater impact** by improving the safety, usability, and effectiveness of our IGT  systems, directly supporting better outcomes for patients and caregivers. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including engineering, clinical, marketing, quality, regulatory, and service—to deliver human-centered solutions that meet global medical device standards. - Conduct and lead user research, usability testing (formative and summative), task analysis, and risk assessments (usability FMEA), and generate documentation for regulatory submissions (FDA, EU-MDR, CMDE). - Work on usability documentation and report outs related to usability studies like expert review, formative evaluation and summative usability evaluations. - Create usability testing protocols, select user profiles, create usability test plans and prioritize feedback and findings into safety, critical and other categories. - Stay ahead of usability regulations (IEC 62366, ISO 14971, FDA guidance) and advise teams on compliant, user-focused product development. - You’ll work in a dynamic and collaborative team, with access to a network of usability experts. The role offers significant personal and professional growth opportunities in a creative, high-impact environment, with strong support for continuous learning. **You're the right fit if:** - You bring **5+ years of experience in** **usability** , human factors, or user-centered design—ideally in medical devices or other high-regulation industries (aviation, automotive, military). - You have **strong research and communication skills** , with the ability to translate user needs into actionable design input and strategic direction. - You hold a degree in **Industrial Design, Product Design, Cognitive Psychology** , or a related field with a focus on **Human Factors or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)** . - You’re familiar with medical device usability and risk management standards (e.g., **IEC 62366, FDA guidance, ISO 14971, EU-MDR** ).