Senior Human Factors Engineer

Career Category

Operations

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Human Factors Engineer

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will be responsible for leading HFE/UE planning, research, development, and continuous improvement of Amgen drug delivery devices using HFE/UE best practices and in accordance with current regulations and guidelines within the medical device, combination product and bio-pharmaceutical industries. The Senior Human Factors / Usability Engineer is a thought leader and user advocate both within the HF groups and external teams. You will be a key stakeholder and collaborate with internal and external partners and across functions within marketing, engineering, risk, quality, safety, manufacturing, and regulatory teams. Our function is to design and implement human factors research to drive innovative and intuitive products. You will lead project study design, methodology, data collection, root cause analysis to inform design. You will support human factors and usability engineering activities to ensure the product user interface design of Amgen’s products support safe and effective use.

The Sr. HFE/UE responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, operations, regulatory, risk, quality, clinical, drug product, digital health, commercial to ensure Amgen products are safe and effective for end users.
• Lead and support human factors and usability engineering activities to improve the design of products, specifically the device-user interface. This includes the device, packaging, labeling, and instructions for use.
• Develop, strategize, and implement a risk-prioritized, fit-for-purpose approach to HF activities.
• Ensure human-system capabilities and limitations are accurately reflected in the system requirements, and HFE/UE input is provided across functions to develop device design, packaging, labeling, and training requirements.
• Identify, lead, and support appropriate human factors and usability engineering activities to improve the design of device-user interfaces, including the device, packaging, labeling, and instructions for use to minimize the potential for use errors.
• Analyze objective and subjective data from usability studies to inform product design, identify and mitigate use-risk, and provide robust solutions.
• Lead the design and execution of human factors formative and summative activities, including moderation, note taking, vendor engagement, and analysis of data.
• Support and provide HFE expertise in preparation for clinical studies and regulatory submissions in accordance with HF best practices, guidance and standards.
• Create documentation to support development activities, design controls, DHF, DMR including protocols, task analysis, use-related risk analysis (URRA), usability technical assessments, HF validation reports, and regulatory submissions.
• Clearly and actively communicate regularly with key internal and external partners.

This position may require up to 20% yearly travel, mostly local and domestic.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The highly organized professional we seek is a problem solver and has the requisite training and experience to be an effective contributor and team members.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree OR
• Master’s degree and 2 years of Human Factors Engineering/Usability Engineering experience in the Biomedical/Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Field OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Human Factors Engineering/Usability Engineering experience in the Biomedical/Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Field OR
• Associate’s degree and 8 years of Human Factors Engineering/Usability Engineering experience in the Biomedical/Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Field OR
• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of Human Factors Engineering/Usability Engineering experience in the Biomedical/Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Field

Preferred Qualifications:

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