Usability Engineer

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Usability Engineer

Job Posting Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Functional Area: Information Technology

Working Model: Hybrid

Requisition ID: 14804

The role

For the Digital Medication Center Department within the Hospital Care Division, we are looking for a Usability Engineer to support the development, integration and continuous improvement of health software applications.

You will work in an international, cross-functional environment on a software platform that brings together applications for hospital workflows, including oncology and clinical nutrition.

The role has a clear focus on usability engineering, regulatory documentation, and use-related safety. Experience in user research, interaction concepts, and wireframing is a welcome additional strength.

Your responsibilities

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• Plan and drive usability engineering activities throughout the complete product lifecycle, from early development to post-market changes.
  
• Create and maintain the usability engineering documentation required for medical software and regulatory submissions, in line with IEC 62366-1 and applicable FDA human factors guidance.
  
• Plan, conduct, analyse, and document formative and summative usability evaluations for digital and web-based user interfaces.
  
• Derive user-oriented requirements from user research, use scenarios, task analyses and evaluation results, and maintain traceability within the requirements engineering process.
  
• Work with our requirements management tool Polarion and other quality-management tools to document requirements, risks, evidence, and test results.
  
• Contribute to use-related risk management in accordance with ISO 14971, including the identification of potential use errors, critical tasks and appropriate risk-control measures.
  
• Support the integration of an existing certified product into the B. Braun portfolio while helping to establish the usability approach for newly developed platform applications.
  
• Apply B. Braun design guidelines and collaborate with UX/UI specialists to support a consistent user experience across products and applications.
  
• Collaborate closely with healthcare professionals, clinical advisors, product owners, software developers, UX/UI designers, quality and regulatory experts, and risk managers.
  
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve usability, use safety and user experience over the product lifecycle.
  
• Degree in Human Factors Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Engineering, Engineering Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction or a comparable field.
  
• Several years of relevant experience in usability engineering or human factors for medical devices, medical software or another regulated healthcare environment.
  
• Sound knowledge and practical application of IEC 62366-1, ISO 14971 and relevant FDA human factors guidance.
  
• Experience with usability engineering files, design controls, requirements engineering and the documentation needed for regulatory submissions.
  
• Experience in planning and moderating usability studies with representative users and translating findings into actionable requirements and design recommendations.
  
• Strong analytical and documentation skills, with the ability to create clear, complete and audit-ready records.
  
• Professional proficiency in English. Additional language skills are welcome.
  
• Ability to collaborate effectively within internationally distributed and multidisciplinary teams.
  

Additional experience that would be a plus

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• Experience with Polarion or a comparable application lifecycle and requirements management tool.
  
• Experience in oncology, clinical nutrition, medication-related workflows or hospital software.
  
• Ability to develop screen concepts, user flows, low-fidelity prototypes or wireframes and define the functions required on a screen.
  
• Experience in user research, including planning and conducting research activities and translating insights into product or design decisions.
  
• Experience with medical software classified under the EU Medical Device Regulation, particularly Class IIb products.
  
• Experience supporting the