Senior Usability Interface/Design Engineer (Direct Hire)

Job Description
We are looking for a Senior User Interface Design / Usability Engineering professional to support the development of a suite of products. This individual will be part of a cross-functional design team and employ a user-centered design methodology to develop new and upgraded designs for electronic hardware, PC/Windows, and browser based host systems.

Job Responsibilities

• Work with end-users and product development team members to gain an understanding and help define the user and functional system requirements.
• Act as a catalyst to bring focus to usability and good interaction design on multiple product development teams composed of engineering and marketing professionals.
• Conduct competitive benchmarking to determine and recommend best of breed designs.
• Develop and apply design strategies and guidelines to new and derivative designs solutions.
• Conduct task / workflow analyses of existing and emerging user work practices.
• Conduct heuristic evaluations of systems and designs.
• Create conceptual/logical design architectures that improve user productivity and satisfaction.
• Develop and build cross organizational team support for physical design storyboards, wireframes and prototypes.
• Apply current User Interface Design visualization/development tools such as Visual Basic, Director, Flash, and Photoshop.
• Plan, conduct, and report usability tests to validate suitability of proposed designs.Create and maintain user interface design specifications.
• Coordinate division level usability design activities, direction, development, and deployment of capability with Corporate Center of Excellence.

Qualifications
This position requires medical device development experience and in addition to:

• B.A. / B.S. in Human Factors, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Industrial/Communication Design or related field,
• M.A. / M.S. preferred
• Must have 7-10 years of experience designing user interfaces for hardware and software products
• Must have experience optimizing user interfaces for human factors / usability.