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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
- 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
- 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 integration or redevelopment of an existing certified software product.
Your personal strengths
- Proactive, structured and results-oriented, with a strong focus on patients, users and product safety.
- Confident in balancing regulatory rigor with pragmatic product-development needs.
- Clear and persuasive communicator who can align technical, clinical, design and regulatory perspectives.
- Curious, collaborative and comfortable working in an evolving international environment.
What We Offer
Gross annual salary starting from €50,000, depending on the candidate’s profile and experience.
To help you perform at your best, our offer focuses on your wellbeing, development and experience as part of the team:
- 10% variable bonus based on global and spanish company results
- Hybrid working model: 3 days working from home and 2 days in the office
- Modern, newly designed offices in central Barcelona, located on Tuset Street, next to Diagonal, in a vibrant and international Tech Hub environment
- Flexible schedule: start from 7:00 to 9:30, finish from 16:00 to 18:30
- Intensive working hours on Fridays
- Flexible compensation: transport, childcare and private health insurance
- Company-funded training and certifications based on individual and business needs
- Meal allowance and home-working allowance
- Free wellbeing platform including coaching, psychological consultations and emotional health content, with the option to extend access to family members at a discounted rate
- 23 calendar days of annual leave
- Life and accident insurance
- Benefits under the Chemical Industry Collective Agreement