Senior Human Factors Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow.

We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

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Job Description

Background

The AbbVie Combination Product Development (CPD) function provides design and development expertise to enable drug delivery systems for AbbVie pharmaceuticals.

The Human Factors (HF) group within CPD manages the drug delivery device user interface design process and executes usability assessments required to support the successful submission of AbbVie Combination Products.

The combination of an increase in the number of drugs that require a delivery device, the recent addition of medical devices to AbbVie’s portfolio, and increasing engagement of Human-Centered Design and HF skills in early-stage clinical development drive the need for additional Human Factors expertise.

We are looking for an individual with academic training and professional experience in human factors / usability engineering or a related discipline for a Human Factors role to support our product development efforts.

Overview of Position :

This role is intended to support the CPD HF group’s need to manage projects to design, test and validate combination products and medical devices.

This individual will work alongside AbbVie HF, Engineering, Medical, Compliance and Regulatory staff to design device user interfaces and HF studies required to ensure ease-of-use, safety, customer acceptance, and regulatory approval.

This position can be based from our Irvine, CA R&D site or our Lake County, IL headquarters.

The individual will perform the following functions in partnership with internal colleagues and / or third-party HF firms :

• Plan and execute the human factors engineering process for product development projects
• Work with System Engineers to develop user needs requirements and user interface specifications
• Conduct and evaluate Use-Related Risk Analyses, and recommend and evaluate design mitigations to use-related risks
• Design device and system user interfaces and associated instructional materials
• Design and conduct usability tests and other usability assessments
• Prepare and compile thorough documentation for inclusion in regulatory submissions
• Design and conduct contextual inquiry research
• Perform task and workflow analyses

Other Functions :

• Assist in maintaining corporate policy, procedures, and tools on best practices for HF
• Facilitate the selection and proper use of outside third-party HF firms

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Human Factors, Industrial Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Psychology or equivalent
• Strong working knowledge of Human Factors methods and principles.
• 4-8 years’ experience in user interface design and usability testing
• Excellent written and spoken communications skills
• Ability to work with a variety of disciplines and teams in fast-paced environments
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Experience in pharmaceutical or medical device product development is preferred
• Working knowledge with medical devices and medical device regulations and standards is preferred
• Ability to travel 10% - 25% of the time

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law :

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position.

Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range.

This range may be modified in the future.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical / dental / vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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