Human Factors Engineer

Overview:

The FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center (WJHTC) is the nation's premier federal aviation laboratory for advancing the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS) and sustaining its continued safe and efficient operations. Diakon Solutions assists in conducting research for the WJHTC Human Factors Branch to develop methods of measuring human performance in the aviation environments, evaluate longer term operational concepts, and develop useful databases and design standards.

Duties:

The selected candidate will be responsible for Human Factors Research and Applied Human Factors Support including:

• Apply knowledge of human abilities, characteristics, and limitations to the design of technology, equipment, working environments, and organizations to reduce human error, increase human-system performance, and facilitate user acceptance of new aviation technologies in the air traffic control, flight deck, technical operations, and unmanned aircraft systems domains.
• Support human factors research, engineering, development, test, and evaluation (RE&D/T&E) projects in aviation domains.
• Support the development and evaluation of new operational concepts, procedures, equipment, technology, facilities, or training methods.
• Work in close collaboration with staff from other technical disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, mathematics, and operations research.
• Assist in the conduct of comprehensive reviews of relevant literature and existing data to ensure that previous efforts are not duplicated.
• Assist in the development of valid and reliable data collection, reduction, and analysis methods following best practices of the field, including quantitative and qualitative metrics.
• Collect human factors data in high-fidelity human-in-the-loop simulations, laboratory studies, field studies, and surveys.
• Contribute to oral presentations and written reports that effectively communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications:

Highly qualified candidate qualifications include the following:

• Degree Requirement - At minimum, a Bachelor s degree in Psychology or in a related human factors specialized field from an accredited college or university.
• At least three (3) years of relevant experience.
• Basic knowledge of the human factors RE&D/T&E project lifecycle, including planning, development, execution, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams, including psychologists, engineers, computer scientists, data scientists, and subject-matter/domain experts to plan and execute human factors RE&D/T&E projects.
• Working knowledge of data analysis and statistical techniques and tools.
• Experience applying standard user-centered design and evaluation methods (e.g., cognitive walkthrough, heuristic evaluation, iterative prototyping) to the development of technological systems.
• Experience authoring project documents (e.g., plans, reports) and preparing presentations (e.g., kickoff briefing, project review) under supervision from a senior scientist or project lead.

Benefits:

Full benefits including 7 weeks paid leave, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401K.