Overview

Principal Usability Engineer - Implantable Medical Devices | Oxford

We are working with a pioneering medical technology company in Oxfordshire to recruit a Principal Usability Engineer who will lead the design and evaluation of intuitive, user-centred implantable devices. This role shapes how surgical teams and clinicians interact with transformative technologies, ensuring every touchpoint is purposeful, accessible, and grounded in real-world clinical workflows.

Location & Travel

Based in Oxfordshire with hybrid working: three days on-site (including Tuesdays and Wednesdays). Occasional travel to partner sites across Europe is required.

Responsibilities

• Champion usability across the full product lifecycle, from concept development to post-market evaluation.
• Work with engineering, clinical, and design teams to ensure user needs drive design decisions beyond regulatory compliance.
• Plan and conduct formative and summative usability studies; refine interfaces and evaluate user experience across implantable technologies.
• Lead usability studies in clinical and simulated environments; translate user insights into actionable design inputs.
• Collaborate with industrial designers, software engineers, and systems teams to refine workflows and interactions.
• Contribute to usability documentation for regulatory submissions and represent usability in design reviews and stakeholder presentations.
• Mentor internal teams and manage external partners to deliver usability outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong background in usability engineering, UX design, or human-computer interaction within regulated environments.
• Experience with surgical or implantable medical technologies is highly desirable.
• Ability to lead usability studies, synthesise complex user data into clear design direction, and communicate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with tools such as Axure, Figma, or Adobe XD is beneficial.
• Proactive mindset with deep empathy for users.

Benefits

Competitive package including shares or equity, life assurance, pension, private healthcare, income protection, and an employer discount scheme typical of larger organisations.

How to Apply

To learn more, contact Andrew Welsh, Director of Medical Devices, Biotech and Drug Discovery Recruitment at Newton Colmore, on (phone number removed). Alternatively, submit your CV and a member of our team will be in touch.