HMI UX Performance Engineer

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Roles / Responsibilities / Qualifications

The HMI UX Performance Lead is accountable for all feedback and intuitiveness of user interfaces within the vehicle and infotainment systems.

UX Performance Leads are specifically focused on

feedback, messaging, auditory signals, intuitiveness, functional grouping and feature logic. UX Performance Leads are responsible for the robust development and management of system logic

and ensures specification alignment with customer functional objectives, electrical engineering specifications and graphical assets.

The object of the activity is to design the user interaction of

features and to provide clear and robust specifications to supporting teams and suppliers. The design of each feature and logic shall be coherent and aligned with all the other documents involved

in the HMI domain. The UX Performance Lead will be involved in the validation of feature logic as well as working directly with the HMI validation teams to verify implementation aligns to

requirements."

Key Job Duties

Create clear and robust specifications.

Participate in meetings :

Present new design proposals; Share HMI issues related to the HMI features; Present benchmarking data to be compared to client execution;

Present user test results and give HMI directions.

• Propose solutions to improve the user interaction with the features and achieve higher targets;
• Lead change request activities;
• Support User Test team in order to create user tests to validate new design solutions; Support validation team during validation phases;
• Support for opening and solving validation issues;

Support Performance Lead during vehicle assessments.

Position Requirements Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields : Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive systems or other related fields

Preferred Qualifications :

Master's degree in one of the following fields : Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive systems or other related fields

Experience with user centered design and requirements development

Understanding of electrical engineering systems and development processes.

Experience with Photoshop, Visio, Doors, Adobe XD

Eight years of relevant experience in the field

Good organizational, teamwork and problem solving skills, ability to meet deadlines amongst changing vehicle designs

Detail oriented, flexible and has the ability to prioritize and facilitate alignments globally

Understanding the benchmarking of competitive vehicle designs for usability and ergonomics; which includes heuristic and objective measurements

Experience with vehicle life cycle design and development

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