Human Factors & Flight Deck Design Engineer

Location: Montreal, QC or Wichita, KS

Work Model: Hybrid – minimum 2 days onsite per week, preferably 3

We are looking for experienced Human Factors / Ergonomics professionals to support aerospace flight deck design and development programs in Montreal and Wichita .

This is an prospect to work on the design and evaluation of aircraft flight deck interfaces, combining Human Factors, ergonomics, engineering, aircraft systems and pilot/user experience .

What You’ll Do

Depending on your area of expertise, you will contribute to:

- Flight deck and cockpit Human Factors and User-Centered Design activities.
- Physical and/or cognitive ergonomics analysis and evaluation.
- Cockpit geometry, interfaces, components and control placement.
- 3D modeling, simulation, rig testing and product evaluation.
- Flight deck HMI design, workflow, workload and usability analysis.
- Requirements development, task analysis and human error analysis.
- Prototyping and scenario-based flight deck/UX evaluations.
- Interaction with flight crews/pilots to assess physical and cognitive usability.
- Supporting certification and compliance activities related to Human Factors.
- Collaborating with engineering, avionics, manufacturing and other Human Factors specialists.

We’re Looking For The ideal candidate will bring:
- 4–15+ years of relevant experience , depending on level.
- Strong practical experience in Human Factors / Ergonomics .
- Aerospace/aviation experience, preferably involving flight decks or cockpits .
- Understanding of aircraft systems, avionics and/or flight operations.




- Experience considering the pilot/user perspective when developing engineering solutions.
- Practical industrial experience — purely academic/theoretical Human Factors experience is not sufficient.
- Strong communication, teamwork, initiative and technical judgment.

Physical Ergonomics Backgrounds Particularly relevant experience includes:

- Anthropometry, reach, strength and vision.
- Cockpit geometry and physical usability.
- Digital human/mannequin modeling.
- Component and control placement.
- 3D modeling tools such as CATIA, NX, Jack or Rhinoceros .

Flight Deck / Cognitive Human Factors Backgrounds

Relevant experience includes

- Flight deck HMI/interface design.
- Cognitive ergonomics, workload and situation awareness.
- Task and human error analysis.
- Flight Management Systems, SATCOM, audio and avionics.
- Flight operations and certification.
- User-centered design, simulation and usability testing.

Important We are not looking for generic occupational/workplace ergonomics or purely avionics/system engineering profiles . The strongest candidates will have experience applying Human Factors directly to aviation, flight deck or similarly complex human-machine environments .

Candidates from other complex transport environments may also be considered where their Human Factors experience is highly transferable.

French is an asset; English is required.

If you have hands-on experience designing or evaluating systems from both the pilot/user perspective and the Human Factors engineering perspective , we would like to hear from you.

📌 Human Factors & Flight Deck Design Engineer (Montreal)
🏢 AXISCADES
📍 Montreal