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HMI Engineer - Ergonomics - PSP
Job Summary:
Our client in Windsor, ON is looking for an HMI Engineer - Ergonomics - PSP. This is a contract position.
What You Will Do:
The UX Performance Lead is accountable for all feedback and intuitiveness of user interfaces within the vehicle and infotainment systems. UX Performance Leads are specifically focused on feedback, messaging, auditory signals, intuitiveness, functional grouping and feature logic. UX Performance Leads are responsible for the robust development and management of system logic and ensures specification alignment with customer functional objectives, electrical engineering specifications and graphical assets.
The UX Performance Lead will be involved in the validation of feature logic as well as working directly with the HMI validation teams to verify implementation aligns to requirements.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Create clear and robust specifications.
- Participate in meetings:
- Present new design proposals.
- Share HMI issues related to the HMI features.
- Present benchmarking data to be compared to company execution.
- Present user test results and give HMI directions.
- Propose solutions to improve the user interaction with the features and achieve higher targets.
- Lead change request activities.
- Support User Test team in order to create user tests to validate new design solutions.
- Support validation team during validation phases.
- Support for opening and solving validation issues.
- Support Performance Lead during vehicle assessments.
Basics:
- Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields: Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive systems or other related fields.
- 1-3 years, ok to count education as experience if degree was HMI focused.
- 3-5 years’ experience HMI performance and validation.
- Knowledge of HMI/UX principles, either through education or job experience are a must.
- Onsite position / remote hybrid.
- Driving of a vehicle required.
Preferred:
- Automotive experience.
How You Will Be Successful:
- Envision the Future
- Communicate Honestly and Broadly
- Seek Technology and Business “First”
- Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Benefit Package
- Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) with matching contributions
- Paid holidays and vacation time off
- Free training on all Altair products
Why Work with Us:
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
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