(Advanced) Usability Engineer

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Brainlab seeks an (Advanced) Usability Engineer in Munich to join the Usability & Design team and help deliver safe, high quality medical device UX across the product life cycle. You will run usability evaluations, manage use-related risk, support cross-functional product teams, conduct user research, and translate requirements into interfaces while ensuring IEC 62366 compliance, with up to 15% international travel and occasional after-hours testing. Requirements include a degree in HCI or related field, 2+ years in usability engineering, strong communication, English and German, and experience with wireframing tools such as Figma. To apply, tailor your resume to demonstrate standards experience, risk management, and cross-functional impact, and include your start date and salary expectations.

Company Description

At the forefront of health technology for over 35 years, Munich-based Brainlab digitizes medical workflows, from diagnosis to therapy, to offer clinicians and patients better treatment possibilities. Our innovative digital ecosystem forms the basis for modern healthcare technology in 4000 hospitals in 120 countries.  

Our key to success is our creative, talented and hard-working team, which consists of around 2000 dedicated and inspiring individuals in 25 locations worldwide. To succeed in reaching our targets, we are seeking committed colleagues who can stand behind our core values curious, authentic and useful. 

Job Description

The Usability & Design department is responsible for usability engineering, user experience design, industrial and user interface design as well as frontend engineering of all Brainlab products.

You will join a team of Usability Engineers and collaborate closely with UX and Product Designers throughout the complete product life cycle, to ensure safe and high quality user experience of our medical devices.

Acting as a consultant and flexible team member for our product teams, you will support implementation of various usability evaluations from reviews to full blown, standard conform usability tests. You will help translate product requirements into concepts and designs for user interfaces. Additionally, you will be responsible for use-related risk management within your projects.

As (Advanced) Usability Engineer your responsibilities will be:

• Conduct usability evaluations and use-related risk management
• Apply whole bandwidth of usability methodologies
• Guide and support product development teams regarding all usability activities
• User research and user requirements engineering
• Translate product requirements into product concepts in collaboration with UX design
• Monitor the usability engineering process within product development as required by related national and international norms and standards (e.g. IEC 62366)
• Exchange with other usability engineers across different areas to ensure consistent interaction

Qualifications

• University degree, ideally in Human Factors Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Psychology or Interaction Design or with related specialization
• Min. 2 years of experience in usability engineering or solid knowledge about usability engineering
• Strong communication and mediation skills
• High self-sufficiency and ability to juggle multiple projects in parallel
• Willingness to integrate in changing multidisciplinary teams
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 15% of the working hours for usability tests (most likely in weekly blocks)
• Openness to work outside regular office hours to conduct remote interviews & tests with e.g. US users
• Proficiency in English and German

Preferred

• Experience with usability standards for medical devices (e.g. IEC 62366)
• Experience with risk management
• Experience with wireframing and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma)

Additional Information

• A mutually-supportive, international team
• Meaningful work with a lasting impact on medical technology
• 30 vacation days, plus December 24th and December 31st
• Flexible working hours as well as hybrid work model within Germany
• Bike leasing via cooperation partner "BikeLeasing"
• Parking garage and safe underground bike storage
• Award-winning subsidized company restaurant and in-house cafes
• Variety-rich fitness program in our ultra-modern 360m2 company gym
• Regular after work, team, and company events
• Comprehensive training and continuing education opportunities

Ready to apply? We look forward to receiving your online application including your first available start date and desired salary. 

Contact person: Elisabeth Karro