Description:
Senior Human Factors Engineer
Hybrid / Full Time / Portsmouth, NH
At Novocure, we're working to extend the lives of patients battling some of the most aggressive cancers. Every role here contributes to that mission and as a Senior Human Factors Engineer, you'll help shape how patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals interact with the next generation of medical technologies.
This is an opportunity to influence product strategy from the earliest stages of development, ensuring that innovative technologies are not only effective, but intuitive, accessible, and designed around real-world user needs.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking an experienced Senior Human Factors Engineer to lead human factors and usability engineering activities across the product development life cycle.
This is not simply a validation and compliance role. We are looking for someone who is passionate about human-centered design and enjoys working directly with users to uncover insights that influence product decisions.
You will partner closely with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Clinical, and Regulatory teams to ensure user needs remain at the center of product development. Through formative and summative studies, user research, risk analysis, and usability evaluations, you'll help create products that are safe, effective, and intuitive for patients and healthcare professionals.
The ideal candidate has deep experience working with Class II and/or Class III medical devices, enjoys engaging directly with users, and understands how to translate user feedback into meaningful design improvements
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Plan, moderate, and execute formative and summative usability studies
- Conduct voice-of-customer research, heuristic evaluations, contextual inquiries, and exploratory concept testing
- Partner with engineering and product teams to define usability requirements and user-centered design strategies
- Ensure user capabilities, limitations, and use-related risks are appropriately addressed throughout product development
- Support risk management activities and contribute to design decisions that improve safety and usability
- Develop study protocols, research plans, reports, and regulatory documentation
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative usability data and translate findings into actionable recommendations
- Represent Human Factors Engineering on cross-functional product development teams
- Collaborate with external vendors, research partners, healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers
- Support regulatory submissions and ensure compliance with applicable human factors standards and guidance documents
- Help shape the future user experience for innovative cancer treatment technologies
ABOUT YOU
You are passionate about understanding how people interact with technology.
You know that successful products are not designed in conference rooms - they're shaped by observing, listening to, and learning from real users. You enjoy facilitating conversations, moderating usability studies, and uncovering insights that others might miss.
You bring strong experience working with electromechanical medical devices and understand the unique challenges of designing products that must be both highly usable and highly reliable. You've likely spent years working directly with users, conducting formative and summative studies, and helping product teams make better decisions through evidence-based design.
You combine technical expertise with empathy, curiosity, and strong communication skills. You're comfortable challenging assumptions, advocating for users, and collaborating across disciplines to deliver exceptional product experiences.
Most importantly, you genuinely care about the people who use the products you help create.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Factors Engineering, Usability Engineering, Industrial Design, Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of relevant experience; or an advanced degree with 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience leading human factors activities for Class II and/or Class III medical devices
- Strong experience planning, moderating, and executing formative and summative usability evaluations
- Experience developing study protocols, usability reports, root cause analyses, and risk assessments
- Experience working with electromechanical medical devices and hardware-based systems
- Strong understanding of IEC 62366-1, ISO 14971, ANSI/AAMI HE75, ISO 13485, and relevant FDA human factors guidance
- Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and technical writing skills
- Ability to work independently and influence cross-functional teams
- Experience collaborating with engineering, product management, regulatory, and clinical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Class III medical devices
- Experience moderating complex user research studies involving patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals
- Experience supporting global regulatory submissions including EU MDR and APAC markets
- Experience with design thinking and human-centered design methodologies
- Experience working within highly regulated medical device environments
- Experience supporting products that combine hardware, software, and connected technologies
- Familiarity with oncology, patient-care, or home-use medical device environments
HOW YOU’LL WORK
- Hybrid work model with regular collaboration in our Portsmouth, NH office
- Partner closely with engineering, product development, clinical, regulatory, and quality teams
- Engage directly with patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and research participants
- Help influence product decisions from concept development through commercialization
- Work in a fast-paced environment where innovation and user advocacy are highly valued
- Occasional domestic and international travel (10–20%)
WHAT WE OFFER
This pay range which Novocure expects to pay for this role at the time of this posting is $140,000 - $170,000/yr. This position may also be eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant in addition to a full range of benefits. Individual compensation within this range depends on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, prior education and experience, job-related knowledge and skills demonstrated.
ABOUT NOVOCURE:
Novocure is a company with a powerful mission, to extend the lives of people living with some of the most aggressive forms of cancer. Here your work will have a direct impact on patients and those who care about them. Join a team of passionate, collaborative people who support each other, challenge one another, and innovate together. Here, you’ll connect, grow, and make a real difference. We’re a company with the drive of a startup and the strength that comes with 25 years of success.
Novocure operates at a rare crossroad, where advanced medical technology converges with cutting-edge biotechnology. We are the only company to develop and commercialize Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields), a proprietary, groundbreaking therapy designed to disrupt cancer cell division. With us you will find a unique combination of laboratory research work alongside engineering development of advanced technologies. This fusion of disciplines positions us as true pioneers in oncology innovation, leading a new frontier in the treatment of aggressive cancers.
Our patient-forward values
– innovation
– focus
– drive
– courage
– trust
– empathy
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Novocure is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veteran and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Novocure is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicant’s needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email [email protected]
If you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.
