Senior Human Factors Analyst (Hybrid)

at  Kardium Inc

Your opportunity
By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.
Kardium has a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market: The Globe® Pulsed Field System. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.
We are seeking a Senior Human Factors Analyst to help drive assessment, product design, and use improvements by facilitating human factors testing of the product in pre-clinical and clinical settings. This is a very exciting time to join the company - we are currently completing clinical trials and preparing for FDA approval for commercial use.
Preference for this position will be a hybrid work arrangement located in Burnaby, BC, but we are open to considering remote work arrangements.
Meaningful work you will be a part of
As a Senior Human Factors Analyst, you will be an integral part of our multidisciplinary engineering team, working across the clinical, electrical, software, mechanical, and risk management domains. Your daily activities will center around supporting human factors activities and becoming a system-level domain expert who contributes to human factors-related design and development activities. You will use your human factors expertise and focus on safety and usability to inform product design decisions and to generate validation evidence to support regulatory submissions.

You are suited to our approach and have the following skills and experience:

• BS/BA or MSc in Human Factors Engineering (HFE), Cognitive Science, Psychology, Industrial Design, Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience with Human Factors Engineering /Usability activities and best practices.
• Experience conducting summative usability testing to support FDA requirements is desirable.
• Familiarity with human factors analysis methods, such as contextual inquiry, task analysis, task flow analysis, root cause analysis, heuristic usability reviews, use related risk analysis.
• Experience planning and executing formal and informal usability testing of hardware and software.
• Familiarity with User Centered User Interface design processes.
• Experience working in safety critical industries in regulated environments is desirable.
• Familiarity with Human Factors Engineering standards such as IEC 62366, FDA Human Factors Guidance, or Human Factors design standards from other safety critical industries

• Plan and execute formative and summative Human Factors usability testing to meet FDA regulatory requirements.
• Draft Human Factors documents such as Test Protocols and Human Factors Engineering reports
• Conduct formal and informal hardware and software usability testing as input to the design and development process.
• Use your knowledge of Human Factors Analysis techniques to interpret user needs, assess risk impact, and provide input into product design.
• Conduct human factors research with end users including physicians and other healthcare workers.
• Provide expert usability input to design decisions based on usability testing and user feedback.
  What you bring to the team
  Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.

You are suited to our approach and have the following skills and experience:

• BS/BA or MSc in Human Factors Engineering (HFE), Cognitive Science, Psychology, Industrial Design, Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience with Human Factors Engineering /Usability activities and best practices.
• Experience conducting summative usability testing to support FDA requirements is desirable.
• Familiarity with human factors analysis methods, such as contextual inquiry, task analysis, task flow analysis, root cause analysis, heuristic usability reviews, use related risk analysis.
• Experience planning and executing formal and informal usability testing of hardware and software.
• Familiarity with User Centered User Interface design processes.
• Experience working in safety critical industries in regulated environments is desirable.
• Familiarity with Human Factors Engineering standards such as IEC 62366, FDA Human Factors Guidance, or Human Factors design standards from other safety critical industries.

Compensation
Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.

As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.

• $92,000 - $130,000 (CAD Annually)

Your Benefits & Well-being
The total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.
Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.
Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.
Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.
Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.
Career progression and learning support.
Professional membership support.
Life at Kardium
What makes us a great place to work?
Our Purpose Our People Our Culture
Patient first ​ Brilliant ​ Excellence
Innovation ​ Achievers​ Communication
Quality Trust ​ Decision making ​
At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.
We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, and Irish ERG.
As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.
And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more