Sr. Human Performance Engineer - Neuromotor Interfaces (Finance)

Company Description
At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.
Job Description
Primary Function of Position

As a member of the Human Factors Team, the Sr. Human Performance Engineer (HPE) leads the development of behavioral research on surgeons and care teams with Intuitive products to inform product strategy for future development, establish evidence for product development and product claims.

As an HPE you will work closely with engineers (mechanical engineers, computer scientists, clinical engineers), product designers (industrial designers, interaction designers), product managers, as well as clinical scientists (health economists, clinical affairs, medical officers).

HPE conducts research to gain a deep understanding of human performance capabilities with respect to the usability of Intuitive products. This function conducts human subjects research that is focused on surgeon and care team cognition, perception, biomechanics, and neuronal functions underlying performance associated with robotic surgery. Evidence generated from these studies provide strategic insight into "what", "why", and "how much" surgeons and care teams differ in performance across a range of products. This evidence informs design strategies, defines requirements, and substantiates claims.

This role functions in ambiguous and strategic stages of product development that involve the ability to position and conduct experimental research within a business. This research demands extensive follow-through to translate, communicate, ideate, prototype, and build novel evidence-based strategies, tools, and concepts that operationalize and inform the intuitiveness of existing and new products. This role demands quick changes in direction with capacity to think strategically while maintaining focus on the details. This role is an engaging opportunity that is highly technical with the expectation that you can integrate knowledge and skills related to scientific behavioral research that actionably supports the product design strategies, product requirements, and product claims associated with state-of-the-art human-robot interfaces.

Essential Job Duties

• Collect, synthesize and present detailed human performance data regarding how users interact with Intuitive products through various research techniques including controlled experimentation, simulations, direct observations, workflow analyses, profiling, metric development.
• Drafting usability requirements, including physical, cognitive, social and organizational aspects of human factors that influence performance with Intuitive products.
• Leading tasks analyses, usability risk analyses, and workflow assessments.
• Literature review/ systematic analyses.
• Designing studies, authoring protocols, training junior staff on products and protocols.
• Developing experimental conditions in domains associated with neuromotor/ sensorimotor control and learning, biomechanics, cognition and perception.
• Analyzing data, including processing, inspecting, transforming, modeling, as well as basic descriptive and inferential analysis.
• Conducting human subjects research.
• Authoring technical reports, white papers, abstracts, manuscripts at all organizational levels.
• Authoring and managing IRB submissions.
• Developing, integrating, and applying novel instrumentation and applications for human subjects research.
• Reinforcing a human centered design approach across the organization.
• Consulting with all functions listed above include other members of Human Factors on large projects.
• Coordinating human factors efforts across projects involving several sub-systems.
• Managing human performance engineering activities within development projects, providing schedules, status updates to product managers and engineering project managers.
• Leading and supporting the development of new Human Factors processes including the creation and maintenance of new DOPs.

Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 6 years relevant research and engineering experience in product development industry.
• Minimum 6 years leading human subjects research.
• Ability to process and analyze large quantitative datasets from human subjects and robotic systems.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize large quantities of data from mixed methods research into usable communications.
• Ability to develop experimental conditions and stimuli in virtual and real environments.
• Ability to lead usability engineering activities (i.e. establishing usability requirements; creating usability risk analyses, test protocols, and test reports) for a complex, software-controlled electro-mechanical medical device.
• Strong acumen with customer and colleague relationships in a highly professional manner.
• Superior ability to write accurate, clear, and concise protocols, reports, operating procedures, etc. in a timely manner.
• Experience with authoring and reviewing scientific manuscripts.
• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with and across various groups and levels of management within the organization, including other engineering groups, commercial, clinical engineering, and regulatory. Excellent collaboration skills.
• Ability to apply user-centered design and human factors engineering principles to product research, development, and design.
• Ability to travel internationally as well as domestically (up to 25%).

Required Education and Training

• Minimum Education: BS in Cognitive Psychology, Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science with human-computer interface (HCI) emphasis, Human Centered Design, Human Factors Engineering or related field. MS or PhD strongly preferred.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience in research on Neuromotor/ Sensorimotor Control and Learning.
• Experience in Computer Science or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience in research on Neuroscience, a plus.
• Experience in research on Biomechanics, a plus.
• Experience in research on Cognitive Science, a plus.
• Experience in Computational Psychology or Data Science, a plus.
• Experience in Differential Psychology, a plus.
• Experience with bioinstrumentation, a plus.
• Experience in medical device, or similar regulated industry, a plus.

Additional Information

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.

Base Salary Range Region 1: $163,200 USD - $234,800 USD
Base Salary Range Region 2: $138,700 USD - $199,700 USD
Shift: Day
Workplace Type: Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.