User Experience Researcher

3 weeks ago


Seattle, United States US Tech Solutions Full time

Job Title: UX Researher IV

Location: Seattle, WA

Duration: 06 months Contract

Pay Rate: $85 to $90/hr on W2 (without benefits)

Job Summary:

Hardware UX researchers and human factors specialists are responsible for delivering technical expertise in areas like cognition, perception, biomechanics, and ergonomics, partnering with hardware engineering and industrial design to build best in class devices. The role will be responsible for developing foundational data sets and research-based, durable design principles to influence hardware development today and in the future, as well as conducting studies to directly inform product design and strategy. Strong candidates will demonstrate a rigorous and creative approach to scientific research methods as well as have experience shipping hardware products.

Responsibilities:

  • Define and establish cognitive, perceptual, and ergonomic insights and frameworks that help us understand tradeoffs & dependencies across business, experience, & technology workstreams
  • Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative and some quantitative methods to create actionable insights across the product development lifecycle, including human factors evaluation and testing of designs and early prototypes, as well as UX evaluation and testing of more mature prototypes
  • Work closely with partners (hardware engineering, industrial design, product management, privacy & security, and more) to ensure the product team is moving forward with a clear understand of the user problem space
  • Effectively communicate with and present findings to a variety of audiences from product teams to executive leadership

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree with 7+ years of relevant experience in user experience, applied research and/or product research and development or a Masters degree and 5+ years relevant experience, or PhD and 2+ year relevant experience
  • Relevant experience within user experience, applied research setting and/or product research and development
  • Interest in and experience executing hands-on, primary research
  • Experience translating research findings into strategic narratives

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in relevant Human Factors and behavioral research areas such as cognitive science, HCI, industrial engineering, biomedical engineering, perceptual psychology, kinematics & biomechanics, or related fields
  • Experience shipping consumer and wearable devices
  • Experience combining qualitative and quantitative user data into cohesive insights
  • Experience with wearable devices and inward/outward facing sensing technologies (e.g., eye-tracking, EMG, SLAM)
  • Experience with experimental methodology, inferential statistics and modeling, kinematics analysis, EMG, EEG, eye-tracking and other approaches to measuring human performance

Must Have skills set:

  • Experience in running applied research for product development
  • Preferred qualitative experience
  • Interview skills, observations, ability to turn insights into actionable recommendations
  • G-suite

Good to have skills:

  • Quantitative experience
  • Working with cross-functional teams as it relates to product development
  • Hardware devices
  • Bonus- AR /VR wearable experience

About US Tech Solutions:

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,

national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Recruiter Details:

Name: Shalini L

Email: Shalini@UStechsolutionsinc.com

Internal ID: 24-26178



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