Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Senior Principal Human Factors Engineer to ensure evolving aircraft hardware and software systems are operable by US military flight and maintenance crews by applying HCI principles to evolving software designs.
Requirements
- Experience developing, administering and/or analyzing Human Factors questionnaires such as Usability, Workload, and Situational Awareness.
- Proficiency in writing and executing demonstration & test procedures
- Familiar with the interpretation and application of systems safety, personnel survivability, and habitability requirements to system design
- Experience with CAD Tools (NX and NX Jack Expertise preferred)
- Experience with system engineering processes and tools (CAMEO preferred)
- Understand systems and design thinking as well as HMI/HCI design principles and practices
- Experience authoring Human Interface Design CDRLs in accordance with DoD Data Item Descriptions (e.g. HEDAD-M/O, HEPP, HSIPP, HETP/R, etc)
Responsibilities
- Support the evaluation of requirements adhering to Human Factors best practices and specified sections of MIL-STD-1472.
- Facilitate the customer’s product vision by conceiving, sketching, and prototyping experiences for digital products with a user centered design approach and consideration to HMI and Human Factors principals
- Use one or more industry standard design and prototyping tools to create wireframes, visual designs, and interactive prototypes
- Leads, enables, and is accountable for the preparation, improvement, and integration of the human interface design visuals for the organization
- Confer with subsystem engineers and subject matter experts for project details regarding background information, project parameters and objectives, presentation approaches, styles, and techniques
- Collaboration with Design Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure evolving design addresses program needs and adheres to Human Interface design requirements
- Contributions to Human Factors Analyses (including but not limited to: Task Analyses and Predictive Workload Analyses, Usability studies, Workload, and Situational Awareness surveys).
Other
- Relocation assistance may be available
- Secret clearance required
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Be flexible and iterate designs in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
- The ability to clearly and accurately express engineering findings orally and in written technical reports and presentations.
