Job Description

Your opportunity
By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.
Kardium’s mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe® Pulsed Field System – we have a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.
We have obtained FDA approval and officially begun the commercial launch of the Globe® Pulsed Field System. This is a pivotal and exciting time in our journey, as we bring this life-changing technology to patients!
We are seeking a Human Factors Engineer to help drive assessment, product design, and usability improvements by supporting human factors-related design and development activities. You will be an integral part of our multidisciplinary engineering team, working across the clinical, software, mechanical, and risk management domains. Your days will center around facilitating human factors activities of the Globe PF System in pre-clinical and clinical settings. You will use your human factors expertise and focus on safety and usability to inform product design decisions and to generate validation evidence to support regulatory submissions.

Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute formative and summative usability tests to meet FDA and IEC regulatory requirements.
• Draft human factors related documents such as test protocols, test reports, use specifications, human factors engineering reports, and usability engineering files.
• Conduct hardware and software usability testing as input to the design and development process.
• Use human factors analysis techniques to conduct user research, interpret user needs, understand use errors, and assess risk impact to provide input into design decisions.
• Conduct human factors research with end users including physicians, electrophysiology lab staff, and other healthcare workers.

What you bring to the team
Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about creating cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work within a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. And we understand that only by working together can we solve the unsolvable.
You will be successful in this role because you possess these attributes:
• University Degree in Human Factors Engineering (HFE), Human Computer Interaction, Psychology, Industrial Design, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 2+ years of experience with human factors engineering/usability activities.
• Experience conducting human factors validation testing to support FDA or IEC regulatory submissions is an asset.
• Experience working in the healthcare industry is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with human factors analysis methods, such as contextual inquiry, task analysis, root cause analysis and use related risk analysis.
• Experience planning and executing formal and informal usability testing of hardware and software.
• Familiarity with user centered design processes.
• Working and effectively communicating in multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with human factors engineering standards such as IEC 62366 and FDA Human Factors Guidance.
• Ability to travel to the United States to support testing activities as required.

Compensation
Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% Retirement Savings Plan contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.
As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.
• $70,000 - $96,000 (CAD Annually)

Your Benefits & Well-being
The total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus an annual contribution to a Retirement Savings Plan account to help support your financial goals.
Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.
Work-day flexibility – we offer a flexible work environment for daily working hours. In addition, we provide 3 personal days per year.
Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.
Family building – we provide top up for maternity leave, adoptive leave, and parental leave for non-birthing parents. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.
Career progression and learning support.
Professional membership support.

Life at Kardium
What makes us a great place to work?
1. Our Purpose
2. Our People
3. Our Culture

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.
We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Irish ERG, Brazilian ERG, and Early Career at Kardium ERG.
As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.
And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!