Job Description
Job Title - Senior HMI Engineer
Term - 12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
Job role overview:
You will be responsible for the development of HMI’s from early definition through to release for
production programmes. You will create engineering deliverables such as wireframes, proof of
concept prototypes, HMI logic layers, state diagrams. You will be expected to work closely with the
Model Based Systems Engineering Team and Product Planning team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
* For assigned feature sets, own the HMI UX & UI attributes form start to finish following the HMI Design lifecycle process.
* Manage detailed HMI model-based requirements, develop prototype and full production design implementations and ensure complete verification and validation. Some of this work could be with third party suppliers.
* Support existing and new HMI designs for each assigned feature/function
* Create visualizations of high-level ideas and explore suggestive directions of graphics
* Define visual directions and develop further style guides
* Conduct feature/function specific and benchmarking activities
* Create HMI Specification documents for features/function and support development handover
* Create and maintain Low/High fidelity wireframes and prototypes with regular reviews and input from wider business
* Facilitate and conduct user testing and working closely with the integration and validation team to plan feature testing
* Ensure HMI system design is software compatible
* Working alongside the Model Based Systems Engineering to understand the feature functionality
* Advanced knowledge of Adobe XD, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator or similar design tools for UX and UI design
* To undertake and assist with duties as required by your Manager.
All Engineers will be expected to deliver a subset of the below:
* Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical information to non-technical professionals.
* Define and improve cost, quality and feature performance targets.
* Review designs to find new opportunities for cost and/or quality improvements.
* Maintain HMI specs timing plan and support Engineering teams.
* Manage and support supplier engagement.
* Demonstrate proof of concept to Product Owners for approval.
* To undertake and assist with projects as required by your Manager.
* Any other ad-hoc duties as required by your Manager.
Professional Experience & Skills:
* Strong understanding of full UX Design Process
* HMI UX definition, concept creation and ideation
* Design prototyping and related tools Validation of UX concepts, data driven design methodologies
* Detailed specification creation and delivery for implementation
* Supplier management experience and working with cross functional teams
* Agile and waterfall methodologies
* Creation and management of graphical assets