Human Factors Engineer for Public Interest
1 month ago
At The MITRE Corporation, we strive to tackle the nation's toughest challenges while fostering a fulfilling life. Our team is dedicated to delivering lasting impact in diverse fields like cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation.
About UsWe are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, free from commercial conflicts that might influence our work. Our research and development centers create innovative solutions for the government, making a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world.
Our workplace reflects our values: competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, innovation, diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. We're committed to sharing our expertise with government sponsors and senior leaders.
Job DescriptionWe're seeking a proactive and self-directed Human-Centered Engineer to lead multi-disciplinary teams in tackling our sponsors' unique challenges. As an innovative problem-solver, you'll excel in designing and leading work initiatives, strategizing, analyzing, and translating user needs into transformative solutions.
This role offers the opportunity to leverage your skills to address whole-of-nation challenges with lasting impact, serving the public interest. Our department values team spirit, creativity, technical enthusiasm, and an unwavering commitment to the end user.
Key Responsibilities- Lead and provide technical guidance to small multidisciplinary teams, including other Human-Centered/Human Factors Engineers, UX Designers, and Front-End UX developers.
- Collaborate closely with HCE/HFEs, UX Designers, researchers, project leaders, and sponsors, leveraging leading practices towards solution impact.
- Advocate for the end-user, ensuring user-centered design principles are consistently applied throughout the solution path.
- Lead the design and development of user interfaces for our sponsors' software and web applications, incorporating user research and usability testing to gather insights into user needs and behaviors.
- Develop and maintain design systems and user interface guidelines, generating research and initiative proposals.
- Mentor early career team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
- A Bachelor's degree in Human Factors Engineering, Cognitive Engineering or Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, UX Design and/or Research, or a related field.
- A minimum of 5 years of work experience in relevant roles, with a proven track record in researching, designing, developing, and prototyping system applications applying user-centered design principles.
- Must be a US citizen capable of obtaining and maintaining a clearance.
- Experience with user research methods and usability testing including facilitating interviews, focus groups, usability testing sessions, requirements gathering, and conducting heuristic assessments.
- Experience in working with design software such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Balsamiq, Figma, or similar tools.
- Strong interpersonal skills, coupled with excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
- Demonstrated ability to share work findings to government sponsors or senior leaders.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical efforts and technically diverse teams of 2 or more.
We prefer candidates with:
- A Master's degree or PhD in Human Factors Engineering, Cognitive Engineering or Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, UX Design and/or Research, or a related field.
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative research design, development, analysis, and presentation.
- An entrepreneurial, innovative spirit.
- Mentoring or tutoring experience.
The estimated salary for this position is $120,000 - $180,000 per year, depending on location and experience. Additionally, you'll receive competitive benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and opportunities for professional development and growth.
Please note that this estimate may vary based on individual circumstances. We're committed to fairness and equity in our compensation practices.
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