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# Usability Engineering Lead at Neko Health

- **Company:** [Neko Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/neko-health)
- **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health/1cd434d0-c7f8-457a-9260-8d4fedf826d0

## Job description

Mission Neko is redefining what prevention means, from treating illness when it arrives, to sustaining health before it's ever at risk. Our mission: make data-driven, preventative care accessible to more people, before symptoms appear.

In a single, non-invasive visit under an hour, proprietary technology and direct clinical care combine to deliver personalised, actionable insights. It's a team that thinks in 10x, not 10%. Every role here plays a part in building a world where prevention is the norm, and where your work genuinely helps people live longer, healthier lives.

## About the role

We're looking for an experienced Usability Engineer / Human Factors Engineer to drive usability engineering activities across Neko Health's product development, and to lead the development of this domain within the Verification & Validation team. You'll bring hands-on experience applying IEC 62366-1 to medical device product development, alongside proven experience implementing usability practices that meet FDA human factors guidance. You'll work closely with the Usability & Validation Engineers on the team to get design feedback into projects as early as possible, so that Neko's medical devices are safe to use.

## What you'll do

- Usability engineering in product development: join product development projects as part of the usability engineering practice, leading usability engineering activities on each project from early concept through final verification
- Domain leadership: grow the domain's capability and practice until it becomes a reference for best practice in a fast-moving environment, constantly questioning processes without losing sight of purpose and user impact
- Process and practice: continuously improve how usability engineering integrates with product development, enabling it to run alongside development. Build instructions, tooling, and training to efficiently support multiple development projects
- Design feedback, early: collaborate with Product, Design, Clinical, Engineering ,and other disciplines to integrate design feedback in projects as early as possible, ensuring safety in use is designed in rather than tested later
- Formative and summative evaluation: plan, run, and document usability evaluations following IEC 62366-1 and FDA human factors guidance, leveraging Neko's vertical integration for direct, in-house access to clinical personnel
- Design validation: oversee validation of UI-related user requirements and verification of use-related risk controls, ensuring both processes are efficient enough to keep up with development without becoming bottlenecks

## About you

Must-have:

- 6+ years of experience in usability engineering or human factors for regulated medical devices
- Hands-on expertise with IEC 62366-1 usability engineering, including planning and conducting formative and summative evaluations on medical devices and performing use-related risk analysis
- FDA human factors experience, implementing usability engineering practices that meet FDA guidance with concrete examples
- Experience with regulated medical devices, understanding how usability and design validation evidence fit into a technical file or design history file under ISO 13485 and EU MDR
- Built or scaled a usability engineering practice by developing methods, tooling, or teams, beyond just executing individual studies
- Comfortable working with both hardware and software; experience with medical devices that include hardware-software combinations as well as software-only devices (SaMD), ensuring cohesive usability engineering across both

Nice to have:

- Experience in an early-stage or fast-growing company, where process, team structure and priorities shift as the company scales
- Experience standing up a new practice or domain
- ISO 14971 risk management experience, specifically where use error and product risk intersect

## Why this role matters

Usability engineering is core to how we build safe medical devices: it's the discipline that lets us say, with confidence, that our products aren't just functional, but safe and easy to use. At Neko we want to keep challenging how we do things so we can move faster, but never at the cost of safety or quality. As our product portfolio grows, we need a usability engineering practice that grows with it, one that keeps pace rather than becoming the bottleneck. This role is driving how usability engineering at Neko becomes a reference on integration of best practices into a fast-pacing and always innovating environment.

## About Neko Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neko Health is a healthcare technology company that has engineered a proprietary, data-driven preventive health scan to detect early signs of disease in otherwise healthy individuals.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Daniel Ek (Co-founder, also founder/CEO of Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Healthcare Technology, Preventive Medicine, Clinical Diagnostics
- Target customers: B2C – Health-conscious individuals; B2B Potential – Self-insured employers
- Mission or purpose statement: “To provide healthcare that’s proactive instead of reactive – so that people can live longer, healthier lives.”

## Products & Services
- **[The Neko Health Scan]**: A 60-minute, full-body health check that captures millions of data points across the skin, heart, blood, and circulation using four proprietary devices (Derma, Spectrum, Echo, and Neko Lens). Includes an unrushed consultation with a doctor where results are discussed immediately. The scan is priced at approximately 2750kr (~$260) in Sweden and is designed for asymptomatic, healthy individuals looking for prevention.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (as of mid-2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **$325.1M** (one prior funding round).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “investors who have built and scaled some of the most ambitious technology companies of the last two decades” (individual names not publicly listed on career page). The company has strong ties to the tech and startup ecosystem.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 1,000 employees (more than half in clinical roles). Aggressive expansion with active clinic locations in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Stockholm, and plans for more. Job postings have increased +344.4% year-over-year (as of mid-2026), indicating rapid scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Hardware**: All four scanning devices are designed, engineered, and assembled in-house in Stockholm, creating a hard-to-replicate technological moat.
- **Integrated Clinical Model**: Unlike traditional clinics or digital health apps, Neko combines its proprietary hardware with on-site doctors, clinical researchers, and data science under one roof with a low patient volume per doctor ( ~9 members/day vs. 30+ in standard care). This enables a focus on prevention, not just treatment.
- **Data Moat**: The system captures millions of structured data points per scan, allowing for peer benchmarking and longitudinal tracking over years, creating a powerful, network-effect dataset for preventive health insights.
- **Leadership**: Co-founded by Daniel Ek (Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Scan Room**: Neko is actively testing a second-generation modular scan room platform designed to capture more signals and scale to new locations.
- **Global Expansion**: Opening new clinics across the UK and Europe, with a clear intent to make the service more accessible.
- **Clinical Research & Governance**: Continued focus on validating their devices with clinical studies and building a clinical leadership team (including ex-NHS and Amazon Health executives) to establish preventive care as a formal clinical discipline.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company was founded to solve the fundamental problem of late-stage diagnosis by focusing on prevention. The work is presented as having a direct, positive impact on human longevity.
- **Culture & Engineering**: The company actively showcases a deep engineering culture where “clinical insight can become a hardware iteration overnight.” Clinicians and engineers share the same floor, fostering rapid iteration and innovation.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Salaries are benchmarked via market research. Benefits include comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, 401K, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, CME Days, and Commuter Benefits.
- **Work Model**: Roles are **on-site** at specific clinic locations. Training for medical roles is fully paid. The interview process is designed to give candidates a feel for the culture and mission.
- **Growth Trajectory**: With 80+ active job postings and triple-digit growth in hiring, the company is in a high-growth phase, offering significant career development opportunities.

## Sources
1. [nekohealth.com](https://www.nekohealth.com/en)
2. [nekohealth.com](https://www.nekohealth.com/us/en/about)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nekohealth)
4. [nekohealthcareers.com](https://www.nekohealthcareers.com/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health)

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