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Human Factors Researcher
Researchers work to answer the most challenging questions in design. In this role, you will reveal what our users need from our products by conducting primary research, exploring the behaviors and motivations of our users, and working with teams of Designers, Product Managers, Engineers and others to develop new features. You’ll inspire change at all stages of product development by delivering exciting oral, written and visual presentations about our findings. Most importantly, your job as a researcher is to help the UX team understand what would make a user’s experiences feel more intuitive, accessible, fun—and even magical.
With considerable experience, you evaluate all the features contributing to user experience, providing expertise, collaborating internally and occasionally leading projects. You contribute new processes and identify product and use requirements.
Nested within the Industrial Design team, the Human Factors (HF) practice aims to provide hands-on research insights that directly impact design decisions and strategic planning. Our focus is to make sure our portfolio products fit into people’s lifestyle by being intuitive, purposeful and comfortable to use.
We are passionate about finding out how users understand, wear, store, share, integrate the most indispensable objects in their life. In addition to looking at user research through a physical lense (ergonomics/ human factors, anthropometry, biomechanics), we also strive to learn everything we can about users’ goals and needs, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. HF is one of the critical driving forces behind gathering these insights and then using them to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with Design, Engineering and Product Management to create innovative, usable, great-looking products that people love to use.
As a HF Researcher, you will have the opportunity to support our practice in developing innovative, user-friendly products. You are a Human Factors expert with excellent communication skills, and are diligent, detail-oriented and can work independently.
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Only one thing consistently stands in the way between our users and the world’s information – hardware. Our Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, more powerful, and seamless. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, our Hardware team is making people’s lives better through technology.
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Design Researcher 2
Do you enjoy thinking about how user, technological, and societal factors interact to give rise to successful products? Are you a storyteller who can pull insights from multiple sources and multiple data streams (market & compete data, contextual inquiry, lab research, telemetry)? Do you want to work on the latest technological solutions to fundamental human needs and how they support users across their work and personal lives? If yes, we want you to consider a role within Microsoft that offers a wide scope of impact on 3D and creative applications.
The Mixed Reality (MR) user research team is seeking a researcher to drive our research on creativity in personal and work settings through multiple mediums, including 3D, 2D, video, photos, and more. We are looking for individuals who can marshal their intuition, experience, and passion to articulate and deliver experiences that enhance our customers’ lives. Expect a fast-paced, fluid environment where collaboration, communication, and creativity are key.
Roles and Responsibilities
As a User Researcher you’ll help research, ideate, and validate breakthrough experiences and innovative solutions that impact the future of technology-enabled solutions for work, play, and life. You will be responsible for designing the appropriate research plan to inform both strategic and tactical business decisions. You will also be part of a creative and collegial central research team, with a culture of sharing and support.
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Minimum Requirements
A Master’s degree is required, PhD is preferred. Ideal areas of study include cognitive psychology, anthropology, cognitive science, HCI, public health research, or public policy research. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of industry user research or consulting work, or similar academic experience. Candidates should have strong theoretical and practical knowledge of both qualitative (e.g., interviewing, observation) and quantitative (surveys, analytics) research methodologies. Experience in the tech industry is a strong plus.
This is a full-time position and requires the candidate to work from Redmond, WA.
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Senior Design Researcher – Ujo Music
Consensys
ConsenSys is a venture production studio and the leading technology firm in blockchain globally. We deliver products, solutions and platforms built using blockchain technology.
Our teams are busy at work building the future of identity, financial markets, commerce, the music industry, security, and infrastructure, and more. To accomplish this we’ve built out a flat organizational structure which we call the ConsenSys Mesh: a network of individuals & teams working autonomously and towards the same goal. Our mission is to use these decentralized solutions to fundamentally reshape the economic, social, and political operating systems of the planet.
The Design Research practice at ConsenSys is driven by a primary principle, construct curiosity.
Driven by curiosity, our practice is as rigorous about the form of inquiry as it is impassioned. We design with people, ensuring that everything we design is grounded in a deep, contextual understanding of what matters to people. Empathetic and forward-thinking, our objective is to inform and inspire the design of systems, services, and experiences. As pragmatic and applied, our practice enables us to act with intent.
About Ujo at ConsenSys:
Ujo Music is a ConsenSys Spoke, with a vision for a music industry that allows creators to grow and thrive independently. It is a platform that uses the ethereum blockchain as the substrate for innovation by empowering artists, digitizing their music rights and metadata, sharing this information in an open environment, and thus enabling new applications, products, and services to license their catalogs and pay artists directly with minimal friction. We are aiming to enrich the lives of artists and fans through a shared love of music, and excitement for the potential of decentralized technology.
We introduced the music industry to smart contracts & blockchain technology and aim to continue bringing this technology to many artists: from more Grammy winners to more bedroom producers.
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About the Senior Design Researcher at Ujo:
We are working in a new, exciting frontier. If you don’t feel that you precisely match the responsibilities of the role outlined above, but still feel that you can contribute to building this future with us, don’t hesitate to apply regardless. We’d love to talk.
Bonus points for:
Excitement & passion for music, media, and art applications.
Experience working within true agile environments.
Here are some of the perks of being part of a unique organization like ConsenSys:
The forefront of a revolution. At ConsenSys we fundamentally believe that a next generation of technologies presents the opportunity to create a more just and equitable society.
A dynamic startup environment. ConsenSys is a thought leader in the blockchain space and we are absorbing a significant portion of the mindshare. This is both exciting and challenging, as we learn to scale our organization while adhering to the principles of decentralization.
Continuous learning. You’ll be constantly exposed to new languages, frameworks and ideas from your peers and as you work on different projects — challenging you to stay at the top of your game.
Deep technical challenges. This entire ecosystem is about 10 years old. Ethereum itself is still a toddler. There is much work to be done before these platforms can scale to the order of millions or billions of users. ConsenSys is building the technology platforms that ca
Human Factors (usability) Subject Matter Advisor
National Coordination Center
Human Factors (usability) Subject Matter Advisor will advise teams and create recommendations related to implementing best practices in usability of technology and reduction of medical errors related to imperfect workflows. This position can be part or full time. The Human Factors (usability) Subject Matter Advisor is required to participatin in and lead advisory councils and focus groups to direct or create deliverables that address (in detail) all aspects of the human usability and ergonmics in clinical informatics. Recommendations and deliverables could include but are not limited to workflow usability assessments; hardware usability assessments; foundational models of human factors and ergonomics (HFE); and potential macroergonomic HFE approaches.
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Sr. Human Factors & Usability Engineer – NxStage
NxStage Medical, a Fresenius Company is on a mission to transform renal care. To do that, we continually seek the best-of-the-best to expand and improve our team of dedicated, innovative professionals. If you share our mission and are committed to improving the lives of renal patients, then we invite you to explore our career opportunities
As a Sr. Human Factors and Usability Engineer at NxStage, you will play a key role in the design, development, use testing, documentation, and launch of NxStage Medical’s flagship products. You will take part in Human Factors & Usability Engineering activities for new product development programs and contribute to usability improvements for current products (sustaining activities), collaborating with a diverse team of engineers and working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. NxStage products integrate mechanical, electrical, software, and fluidic elements, and include interactions with both wet and dry disposables components
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Human Factors Engineer
Radius Product Development
Radius (A Jabil Company) is a global strategy and innovation consulting firm serving the IoT, Digital, consumer, healthcare, packaging, and commercial/industrial markets. At Radius, our secret ingredient is our people. We hire talented individuals with a passion for delivering results that know how to discover, design, develop, and deliver products that are better than anything on the market today. We build multi-disciplinary teams of business strategists, researchers, designers, human factors specialists, engineers, quality, and manufacturing experts who thrive on solving our clients’ most complex challenges for bringing successful products to market.
Join our award-winning team if you want to sharpen your skills and geek out on a variety of projects. It goes without saying; we offer a dynamic, fast-paced work environment with plenty of growth opportunities, excellent compensation, and benefits.
JOB SUMMARY
The position of Human Factors Specialist is responsible for executing meaningful research and human factors activities required to drive innovative programs, clients, and teams. Radius is looking for a highly creative and passionate individual to focus on projects ranging from technology-driven medical devices to consumer lifestyle products with an underlying goal of improving lives. The Human Factors Specialist will interface with internal team members and clients to execute research plans and create deliverables to inform and inspire stakeholders.
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Program Management
Technical Expertise
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Human Factors Engineer
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Casper (casper.com) is a global sleep company that launched in 2014 with an obsessively engineered, outrageously comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers. Its critically acclaimed sleep surface was developed in-house, has a sleek design, and is delivered in a small, “how did they do that?”-sized box. The company is one of the fastest-growing consumer brands of all time, and its product line has expanded to include sheets, pillows, a matching foundation, and a dog mattress. Casper was named one of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2017, and its eponymous mattress was crowned one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions.We are deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce so that we represent all those who dream big equally.
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