ABSI Aerospace & Defense is an innovative small business located in Southern Maryland near Patuxent River Naval Base. Operating in the quickly evolving areas of unmanned/manned systems integration, LVC simulations and training, aviation development, test, evaluation, and training, and autonomous systems, ABSI is growing rapidly. With a focus on maintaining a highly committed and well-compensated workforce, the company seeks to continue building opportunities within DoD and commercial ventures.
The ideal candidate will have experience in applying HFE principles to product development and integration, developing and executing user evaluations, documenting research findings and will have a high-level knowledge of design principles like usability, industrial design, simplicity.
Experience working in or with military teams, applying military-specific HFE principles to product development and integration, military/DOD acquisition, research, development, test and evaluation processes, as well as virtual or augmented reality, machine vision and/or camera systems is beneficial.
Required Support to include:
Contributions to Human Factors Analyses (including but not limited to: Task Analyses and Predictive Workload Analyses
Support the development of system architectures, CONOPS, and use case development using model-based systems engineering methodologies
Contribute to functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Support the preparation, coordination and conduct both predictive and empirical workload analyses as well as usability assessments.
Conduct computer based (NX) and empirical accessibility assessments
Author/support the program documentation of the HFE processes and products in a format consistent with US Military Data Item Descriptions (e.g. Human Engineering Program Plan, Human Engineering Design Approach Document Operator, Human Engineering Design Approach Document Maintainer, Human Engineering Test Plan, Human Engineering Test Report, et. al).
Cross-IPT Collaboration
Requirements:
Able to provide technical solutions to a wide variety of difficult problems through creative and practical application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques
Able to function in multi-disciplinary team-oriented environment and rapidly adapt to changing work priorities
Must have an Active Secret Security Clearance
Must be a US Citizen
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5+ years of Human Factors experience OR Master’s Degree in STEM and 3+ years of Human Factors experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Flight Crew Certifications
Aircraft Maintenance Certifications
Experience with the interpretation and application of systems safety, personnel survivability, and habitability requirements to system design
Significant experience with Systems Engineering processes
Proficiency in reading/writing software code
Proficiency with MATLAB or SIMULINK
Proficiency in system modeling tools (i.e. CORE, Rhapsody, PTC Integrity Modeler, Cameo)
Knowledge of SysML, UML, and UPDM
Experience conducting structured trade studies
Integration & test experience
Business development/proposal background
Experience preparing Human Systems Interface Style Guides
Proficiency with the user interface software prototyping tools
Understand systems and design thinking as well as HMI/HCI design principles and practices
Experience with DOORS, MBSE and CANVAS modeling tools
Experience authoring, evolving, decomposing and verifying requirements from system-level through software implementation-level
The ability to clearly and accurately express engineering findings orally and in written technical reports and presentations is essential.
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