UI/UX UX Researcher IV

Job Title

UI/UX UX Researcher IV

Job type

W2

Location

Seattle WA

Relocation

No

Location Type

Hybrid

Duration

12Months

Number of Positions

1

Experience Required

7Years

Notes

Job Description

Job Description:

• Hardware UX researchers and human factors specialists are responsible for delivering technical expertise in areas like cognition perception biomechanics and ergonomics partnering with hardware engineering and industrial design to build best in class devices. The role will be responsible for developing foundational data sets and researchbased durable design principles to influence hardware development today and in the future as well as conducting studies to directly inform product design and strategy.
• Strong candidates will demonstrate a rigorous and creative approach to scientific research methods as well as have experience shipping hardware products.

Ultimately your expertise and ingenuity in research must do more than just contribute to knowledge you must also be skilled at driving measurable positive impact on product and the user experience.


Responsibilities

• Define and establish cognitive perceptual and ergonomic insights and frameworks that help us understand tradeoffs & dependencies across business experience & technology workstreams
• Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative and some quantitative methods to create actionable insights across the product development lifecycle including human factors evaluation and testing of designs and early prototypes as well as UX evaluation and testing of more mature prototypes
• Work closely with partners (hardware engineering industrial design product management privacy & security and more) to ensure the product team is moving forward with a clear understand of the user problem space
• Effectively communicate with and present findings to a variety of audiences from product teams to executive leadership

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 7 years of relevant experience in user experience applied research and/or product research and development or a Masters degree and 5 years relevant experience or PhD and 2 year relevant experience
• Relevant experience within user experience applied research setting and/or product research and development
• Interest in and experience executing handson primary research
• Experience translating research findings into strategic narratives

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in relevant Human Factors and behavioral research areas such as cognitive science HCI industrial engineering biomedical engineering perceptual psychology kinematics & biomechanics or related fields
• Experience shipping consumer and wearable devices
• Experience combining qualitative and quantitative user data into cohesive insights
• Experience with wearable devices and inward/outward facing sensing technologies (e.g. eyetracking EMG SLAM)
• Experience with experimental methodology inferential statistics and modeling kinematics analysis EMG EEG eyetracking and other approaches to measuring human performance