Senior Human Factors Engineer

The position of Sr. Human Factors Engineer is within our Infectious Disease business unit located in San Diego, California. This is an in-office role on site. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life.

• Design and execute studies that address both user behavior and attitudes
• Generate insights that shape how product teams think about medium and long-term product strategy
• Contributes to customer, competitive, and software industry research to identify and prioritize usability improvement possibilities
• Collaborates with team members on risks and resolution of issues to program leadership team
• Creates detailed usability improvement concepts
• Communicates improvement plans, concepts and status across Marketing, development staff, and senior management
• Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors
• Provide human factors support to R&D teams for product development
• Responsible for directing and coordinating all activities necessary to complete human factors engineering projects

• B.A/B.S. in a human behavior related field
• 4+ years’ experience in applied product research in a similar role

• Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines.