Principal Human Factors Design Eng - AiBLE Validation

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Aug 2026 Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey. Our Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) Operating Unit develops and delivers an integrated ecosystem of spinal implants, navigation and robotic guidance systems, advanced imaging, and data-driven planning tools for complex spine and cranial procedures. Platforms such as AiBLE™ connect these technologies to enhance surgical precision, streamline workflows, and support improved patient outcomes across the globe. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic CST At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. We’re working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance, foster an environment of belonging, and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary. As a Principal Human Factors Engineer - AiBLE Validation, you will serve as the conduit between real-world use and innovative design. You’ll design and lead purposefully crafted customer and clinical studies that reveal how Medtronic’s AiBLE solutions perform in the hands of real surgical teams across patient journeys in Cranial, Spine, and ENT surgery. You’ll listen deeply, observe fearlessly, and translate insights into actionable design evidence which illuminate how our technologies feel, perform, and transform surgical practice in real-world environments – not just in specification. Through your leadership, collaboration, and influence you will apply real-world use centered principles to understand and confirm that solutions truly elevate experience, drive meaningful efficiency, improve patient efficacy, and integrate across our AiBLE ecosystem. In this exciting role as a Principal Human Factors Engineer - AiBLE Validation, you’ll have the following responsibilities, and other duties may be assigned when required: Plan, design and execute real-world clinical and customer evaluations to test and evaluate that solutions perform effectively in actual use scenarios and surgical environments during the product development process. Validate that solutions improve workflow efficiency, usability, reliability, performance, and clinical outcomes under real-use conditions and integrated as part of Medtronic’s AiBLE Ecosystem. Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative methods and criteria in which to demonstrate a product’s safe and effective use. Perform analysis of test results to identify use errors, close calls, operational difficulties, and product defects. Ensure identified product issues are dispositioned and tracked. Document a product version’s end-to-end usability strategy and evaluation outcomes. Apply cognitive and behavioral science to the design of solutions under development and perform heuristic or other usability analyses during design reviews to ensure the product is appropriately designed for actual use. Perform usability failure modes and effects analysis to identify critical tasks, mitigations, and test methodology to demonstrate effectiveness. Develop UI / UX specifications, provide design improvement recommendations, and perform defect analysis to improve use experience or further mitigate risk. Effectively communicate and present findings, challenges, solutions, and recommendations within the team, organization, stakeholder leaders, and outside the organization. Serve as a subject matter expert in design validation, the operation of our products by users in their use environments, design for usability and use experience, the clinical procedures we design products for, and in usability and validation standards regulators expect our products to meet. Lead, mentor, and inspire engineers – building up technical capability and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, technical rigor, and collaboration. Engage cross-functional stakeholders (Product Management, R&D, Quality, Marketing, Operations, etc) to balance technical excellence, usability, and business objectives to ensure successful execution of programs. Collaborate across Medtronic to ensure best practices are employed in designs and development processes. Drive positive engagement with technical teams and business leaders. Ensure adherence to Medtronic and other quality standards including design procedures and compliance requirements. Occasional international and domestic travel may be required at less than 25%. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a technically related field (STEM) with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree in a technically related field (STEM) with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience Preferred Qualifications: Experience in the medical device industry or in the surgery field. Experience leveraging Artificial Intelligence to improve the efficiency of work. Experience in leading cross-functional or multi-platform engineering activities across product definition, specification, test, and launch. Expertise in product design validation and the validation of their integration into an ecosystem of connected products. Expertise in usability standards, tools and models that facilitate design validation. Experience in user experience and user interaction design. Experience in robotic-assisted surgery, computer-assisted surgery, anatomical imaging, and/or remote/cloud-based software design. Expertise in planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts. Experience with software design and iterative (Agile) software development practices. Experience with hardware design. Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to influence across the organization. Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions. Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas. Ability to align engineering execution with long-term portfolio strategies and roadmaps. Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the-art. Strong communication and storytelling ability – able to simplify complexity for executives while inspiring teams. For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required. 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