Senior Flight Deck Human Factors Specialist

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Come join the team that designs, tests, and certifies industry-leading, state-of-the-art Flight Decks for Boeing Commercial Airplanes At any given moment, tens of thousands of Flight Crews around the world are operating and working in the flight decks of Boeing-designed airplanes. We are tasked with ensuring that today's designs receive world class support and new and future designs are loved by pilots, advance aviation safety, and improve operational efficiency. The flight decks that you design will be used for decades to come and connect the entire globe.
**Boeing Brazil Engineering** is seeking **Principal **Flight Deck Human Factors Specialist**, (Update to generic title) reporting directly to the Flight Deck Manager of the Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil branch.
In Flight Deck, we define the look and feel of the interface for the pilots. You will be responsible for that design from conception to the end of its service life. Come join a team of experts in flight operations, with unique knowledge of how flight crews operate our airplanes and what their needs, tasks, and constraints are. In this role, you will work closely with pilots from all over the world to deliver industry leading flight decks.
The successful Flight Deck team member has a passion for aviation and enjoys working with a team of pilots, engineers, and customers who share that same passion.
**Position Responsibilities**:
- Designing, testing, and certifying the look, feel, and operational behavior of the flight deck, from the early conceptual phase to supporting airplanes through their service life.
- Collaborating with pilots, designers, and systems engineers to ensure flight deck interfaces and flight management automation complements the cognitive, physical, sensory, and ergonomic capabilities of our pilots.
- Conducting and executing user evaluations and testing in state-of-the-art full-flight simulators and flight test airplanes.
- Designing and executing human factors studies in support of product development and product evolution, ensuring continuous growth within the frontier of human-system integration.
- Leading product development efforts to identify new and emerging technologies to increase aviation safety and add value to our products or services.
- Leading the establishment of design requirements for changes and enhancements to the flight crew interface on existing or new commercial airplane models, and testing and implementing those enhancements.
- Developing and executing Human Factors processes in support of compliance activities and interacting with regulatory bodies, both domestic and international.
- Utilizing Human Factors methodologies and best practices to develop, evaluate, analyze, test, and support the cognitive, interactive, ergonomic, and behavioral attributes of Boeing Flight Decks.
- Informing and advocating for the incorporation of human performance limits in the assessment of safety risk in our product designs.
- Working closely with the international avionics community and a diverse and global community of flight operations professionals including flight test, technical and procedural, training, customer airline, and regulator pilots.
- Represent Boeing Commercial Airplanes Human Factors community in both corporate enterprise functional organizations as well as industry committees.
**Employer is not willing to sponsor applicants for employment visa status.**
**Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience)**:
- 12+ years of human factors experience a manufacturing, development or research environment
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally
- Bachelor degree from an accredited course of study in human factors, UX/UI Design, systems engineering, industrial engineering, or psychology.
- Good verbal and written communications skills in English
- Must be legally able to work in Brazil
**Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience)**:
- Human factors experience within the aerospace/flight operation in a safety critical industry
- Pilot certification or experience
**Typical Education and Experience**:
Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 14 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+9 years' related work experience, Master+12 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation s

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