We seek a passionate team player that will be an integral part of the team’s continued success and growth within the HID organization. The successful candidate will have a proactive and positive approach with the ability to work autonomously, collaboratively and thoroughly on a range of confidential and time-sensitive assignments. In this role you will design and moderate user study sessions to support the software, firmware and algorithm design and validation of input mechanisms on various hardware products.

Does an exciting, multifaceted, fast-paced environment catch your attention? Do you like puzzles and determining solutions that are not obvious? Terrific! Consider joining us!

User Studies Research Engineer will work multi-functionally with various teams to plan and execute study protocols, assist in study setup, coordinate surveys, and collect quantitative and qualitative data.

This individual will be an integral player in defining how to provide the best participant experience across our studies.

– Develop correspondence, recruit and schedule study participants

– Identify inefficiencies and streamline project-related databases and processes

– Own space utilization and coordinate study environment use, setup, and maintenance

– Manage and maintain study documents and electronic data

– Use and maintain hardware prototypes

– Facilitate one-on-one or large-group sessions individually and as a team.

– Able to produce significant visualizations and summaries of the data, and optimally present results to different audiences and across multiple media formats

– Organized, highly attentive to detail, and manages time well

Strong interpersonal skills and a passion for working with people, with an ability to build multi-functional relationshipsAbility to acquire familiarity with emergent technologiesStrong critical thinking skills in defining new measures to evaluate user experience, study design and research requirementsDemonstrated success with schedules, task management, facilities, purchasing, device set-up and day-to-day operations of the roleAbility to work autonomously on assignments and handle sensitive and confidential information with integrity, discretion and upmost secrecyExtraordinary work ethic while balancing the needs of the individuals and the businessExperience planning, and executing small to mid range—scale human/user data collection studiesFamiliarity with research methodologies