• Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
• Type: Contract
• Job #3663

Title: Usability/Human Factors Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Compensation Range: $180 – $200K
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government.  Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.  Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems.  If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Benefits Overview:
Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *

Job Description:
Seeking a Usability/Human Factors Engineer to join the software development team who will develop and sustain integrated, feature-rich capabilities that promote modernization of visualization and presentation tools. The software development team will provide application development and support to tools that allow mission analytic users to view existing data or contribute new information in a collaborative environment.
The Usability/Human Factors Engineer will focus on solving user experience challenges on a highly complex application used by a wide range of users. The Usability/Human Factors Engineer works with developers, managers, and system engineers to keep the product modern and cutting edge. Additionally, the Usability/Human Factors Engineer 2 will research and document user workflows, design and create mockups, engage with users, and interact with the development teams using tools such as Axure and Adobe Creative Cloud Suite.
Additional information:

• Approximately 15 team members made up of software, system, and test engineers
• Work performed in contractor facility in Annapolis Junction

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in cognitive and/or experimental psychology, human factors engineering, or engineering related field (e.g. systems engineering, software engineering, business process engineering). Advanced degree in these fields is desired

Individual Capabilities Required:

• At least ten (10) years experience in this or related field and have familiarity with task analysis, user interface design, and usability testing
• At least five (5) years user-experience design and testing experience
• Direct, conduct usability testing and work closely with product designers and process engineers developing applications
• Designing and developing user surveys to obtain user feedback
• Use task experience in each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment)
• Direct, conduct usability testing and work closely with product designers and process engineers developing applications
• Designing and developing user surveys to obtain user feedback
• Use task experience in each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment). To work closely with users (analysts) to research for and document user profiles, analysis tasks, workflows, and user scenarios; in order to create user interface design from specifications provided