Role
AI for Human Factors Engineers
Founder, Automation Squad
Design objects, facilities, and environments to optimize human well-being and overall system performance, applying theory, principles, and data regarding the relationship between humans and respective technology. Investigate and analyze characteristics of human behavior and performance as it relates to the use of technology.
Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists · O*NET 17-2112.01 · Job Zone 5 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database
Automation coverage
18 of 40tools on this list have an AI solution available today
Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.
AI you can use for this job
32 matched to the tools human factors engineers and ergonomists use. Showing 24.
Microsoft Outlook
MCP serverMicrosoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.
Microsoft Outlook
Make (make.com)
Atlassian Confluence
MCP serverMicrosoft Excel
MCP serverMicrosoft's Excel is a spreadsheet application used by millions of users across the world. It is part of the Office ecosystem and is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets. Only files on OneDrive for Business (available with Office 365 and Sharepoint server) are su
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
MCP serverOffice Powerpoint
MCP serverPowerpoint
MCP serverAdobe Acrobat is PDF editing software that can be used to create, convert and share PDF documents. It can convert documents in Microsoft Office formats to PDFs, and vice versa. PDFs can be viewed, annotated, and signed using Adobe Sign and the free Acrobat Reader mobile app.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a graphic design and video editing suite that enables businesses to publish print layouts, edit images, manage PDF documents, and collaborate with team members using various mobile and desktop applications.
Adobe Pdf Services
MCP serverAdobe Photoshop
MCP serverAdobe Sign
MCP serverApple Safari
AppMake (make.com)
Atlassian Jira Confluence
MCP serverAutoCAD
AppAutoCAD is a design and drafting platform which supports automated design tasks and offers features such as 2D drafting, drawing and annotation, 3D modeling and visualization, and more.
Autodesk
MCP serverDesigncenter Solid Edge provides businesses with a range of modeling and simulation tools to address all aspects of the product development process. The software portfolio covers electrical design, 3D design, computer aided manufacturing (CAM), 3D printing, simulation, data manag
Doc Testing
SkillEasy Autocad
MCP serverExcel
MCP serverExcel
SkillMathworks Matlab
MCP serverMatlab
SkillMake (make.com)
The tools this job actually uses
62 documented for this occupation. Showing 40, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.
- Adobe Acrobathot
- Adobe Creative Cloud softwarehot
- Adobe Illustratorhot
- Adobe InDesignhot
- Adobe Photoshophot
- AJAXhot
- Apple Safarihot
- Atlassian JIRAhot
- Autodesk AutoCADhot
- Chot
- Cascading style sheets CSShot
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorkshot
- Extensible markup language XMLhot
- Hypertext markup language HTMLhot
- IBM SPSS Statisticshot
- JavaScripthot
- JavaScript Object Notation JSONhot
- jQueryhot
- Linuxhot
- Microsoft Excelhot
- Microsoft Office softwarehot
- Microsoft Outlookhot
- Microsoft PowerPointhot
- Microsoft Visiohot
- Microsoft Visual Basichot
- Microsoft Wordhot
- Mozilla Firefoxhot
- Oracle Javahot
- Pythonhot
- Rhot
- SAShot
- The MathWorks MATLABhot
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- AEMC DataView
- Altia Design
- Bit Debris Solutions Usability Activity Log
- Dartfish ProSuite
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Data Translation quickDAQ
- Debugging software
What this job involves
27 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics, such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals, including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools, such as checklists, surveys, videotaping, or force measurement.
- Provide technical support to clients through activities, such as rearranging workplace fixtures to reduce physical hazards or discomfort or modifying task sequences to reduce cycle time.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidence of injury.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Provide human factors technical expertise on topics, such as advanced user-interface technology development or the role of human users in automated or autonomous sub-systems in advanced vehicle systems.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- Develop or implement research methodologies or statistical analysis plans to test and evaluate developmental prototypes used in new products or processes, such as cockpit designs, user workstations, or computerized human models.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Investigate theoretical or conceptual issues, such as the human design considerations of lunar landers or habitats.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, thermoanemometers, sling psychrometers, or colorimetric detection tubes.
