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Welcome to Proteus Digital Health, where we’re pioneering a new category of products, services and data systems based on ingestible computing. Our core technology – the digital health feedback system – provides an unprecedented view into an individual’s personal health choices and physiologic response. This care-altering feedback system enables patients to better manage their health, allows more effective collaboration with caregivers and clinicians, all while enabling new information-based business models.

What Amazon did with books, and Apple did with music, Proteus is poised to do with digital medicine. Come join our unique collection of innovative scientists, engineers, market makers, designers, doctors, developers, clinicians, and other digital health industry pioneers, and help us dramatically improve the lives of tens of millions across the globe.

Learn more about what we do (video): https://proteus.app.box.com/BuildersandInnovators

The energy and culture at Proteus is a contagious mix of passion, focus, relentless determination, and serious fun. Proteans are mission-minded and collaborate in a way that’s refreshingly encouraging. With all of this comes success and then growth, which is why you’re reading this now because we are seeking an experienced Human Factors/Usability Engineer.

Team: Product Experience

Reports to: Head of User Experience

Ready to be at the intersection of technology and medicine? Help create the future of Digital Health. At Proteus Digital Health, you will create products that allow everyone an unprecedented view into managing health, from caregivers and patients to medical professionals and health systems.

Join a passionate group of designers, researchers and strategists responsible for making every element of our product effortless, valuable and delightful. We’re human-centered at our core, always aiming to serve our users first and foremost.

What you’ll do:

You will be responsible for leading human factors/usability engineering activities at Proteus and with Proteus’ strategic partners. You will operate at the intersection of the HFE discipline in context of regulatory innovation and new medical products that combine drugs, devices and software. Activities will cover both thought leadership as well as full support for the design life cycle of a product or product feature, including but not limited to: task analysis, usability risk analysis, formative evaluation(s), summative evaluation, and creation of the usability engineering file. Output from these activities (e.g. research, analysis) will directly inform product design, design execution, and regulatory strategy / submissions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Apply human factors expertise to support of Proteus strategic partners[KA1]
• Complete HFE/UE activities and deliverables:
  • Research and define user needs and requirements, characteristics of use (e.g. user group, use environment), and task analyses.
  • Create and maintain usability risk analyses in collaboration with client, designers, clinical engineers, and others.
  • Create and maintain usability engineering files.
  • Design and execute usability (human factors) studies at various stages of product development from early prototypes through formal FDA-mandated validation. Author usability study protocols and reports, moderate studies, and analyze study data.
  • Communicate findings and relevant recommendations to internal and external stakeholders of all organizational levels
• Educate strategic partners and Proteus on human factors principles and processes
• Act as a trusted advisor to Proteus’ strategic partners by acting as a liaison between us and our partners for human factors/usability engineering related activities to ensure that needs and/or requirements are communicated effectively within the Proteus organization.
• Manage usability engineering activities within development projects and provide schedules and status to Proteus organization and alliance managers.
• Keep abreast of regulations and best practices for medical device human factors (e.g. IEC 62366, AAMI HE75) and advise client regarding regulatory issues related to usability engineering.
• Collaborate closely with teams to influence product design, design definition and execution.
• Contribute to product and service designs by providing guidance and presenting research results, ideas, and feedback to interaction designers and developers. Assist creation and revision of user-interface requirements documents.
• Communicate learnings in an actionable manner, providing content and guidance for designs.
• Present and effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels (design team through VP and CEO level stakeholders)
• Collaborate with external Human Factor Engineering consultancies, internal stakeholders and partner organizations.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build consensus and achieve results
• Ability to utilize critical thinking to analyze problems which may require creative approaches and multiple factors
• Demonstrate strong presentation and communication skills
• Sense of self-initiative, autonomy, problem solving, critical analysis and ownership
• Ability to connect effectively in person and remote through verbal and written communication
• The right candidate should have 3+ years of experience delivering human factors engineering in device development engineering in a pharmaceutical, medical device, or other regulated environment or related field.

• They should also be familiar with US/EU guidance and standards related to human factors/usability, design controls and risk management (e.g. 62366-1:2015, 14971:2012).
• Degree in human factors engineering, HCI, industrial engineering, experimental or cognitive psychology, cognitive engineering or related discipline.
• Comfortable with MS Office
• Availability to travel domestically and internationally

Ready for the ride of your life? We’re looking forward to receiving your resume!

We provide our employees with a great benefits package, which includes: medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K, paid time off (PTO)—including your birthday off, employee stock options, a bright & awesomely designed physical work space, a complimentary wearable device (i.e. Fitbit), fitness centers, and, of course free snacks & beverages.

About Us: Proteus has received FDA market clearance in the U.S. and a CE mark in Europe for its wearable and ingestible sensor devices. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., Proteus is privately held and funded by Carlyle, Essex Woodlands, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Novartis, Otsuka, Oracle, ON Semiconductor, and other investors.