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# Usability Designer

- **Company:** Koninklijke Philips N V
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $129,000 - $205,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cognitive Science, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, User-Centered Design
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/usability-designer-0050-us00-remote-us90-10718767

## About the Role

* You've acquired 2+ years of experience (4+ preferred) in usability engineering for complex systems, preferably within the medical device industry, along with experience across the product lifecycle, including user needs, task analysis, validation, and post-market follow-up.
 * Your skills include:
 + Knowledge of cognitive and physical ergonomics.
 + Familiarity with quality management systems and risk management principles, and the ability to produce high-quality formal documentation.
 + An understanding of regulatory requirements for medical device usability, including FDA guidance and IEC 62366-1 (highly preferred).
 * You have a bachelor's or master's degree in human factors engineering, human-computer interaction (HCI), cognitive science, product or interaction design or similar discipline.
 * You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
 * You're an excellent communicator, both written and verbal.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company's facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company's main facilities, generally at the customers' or suppliers' locations.

## Description

As a Usability Designer within Philips' Ambulatory Monitoring & Diagnostics (AM&D) business, you will play a critical role in shaping products that improve patient outcomes and clinician experiences around the world. You'll champion user-centered design, ensuring our solutions are safe, effective, and intuitive while advocating for the needs of patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals across a global portfolio of innovative products and services.

Your role:

 * Defining usability activities across all development phases in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, including UX designers, clinical specialists, product managers, researchers, and system engineers.
 * Conducting user research, task analysis, and developing use scenarios.
 * Providing usability input to the design of user-centered and safe-to-use solutions.
 * Leading usability FMEA activities.
 * Planning, executing, and reporting usability evaluations and ensuring critical findings are addressed.
 * Conducting summative evaluations and creating the usability engineering file in compliance with FDA guidance and IEC 62366-1.
 * Analyzing post-market and telemetry data to identify usability issues.