Medtronic-posted 3 days ago
Full-time • Senior
Onsite • Lafayette, CO
5,001-10,000 employees

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. A Day in the Life The Sr Principal Product Security Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the security of Medtronic Surgical Operating Unit medical device solutions. Reporting to the Director of Product Security, this role drives the integration of advanced cybersecurity measures, identifies and mitigates potential vulnerabilities, and supports initiatives that improve cyber-resiliency throughout the product lifecycle. You will serve as a technical subject matter expert and mentor, collaborating across teams and contributing to long-term improvements in our security posture. In this engineering-focused role, you will join a world-class team of systems, mechanical, electrical, software, and quality engineers within Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit (OU). The Surgical OU brings together the people and portfolios of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations to advance surgical care through robotics, surgical energy technologies, and digital solutions. This role focuses on cybersecurity for medical devices and embedded systems. It is not an IT security, compliance, or GRC-focused position. The ideal candidate will have deep experience working with engineering teams to integrate cybersecurity into real-time systems, embedded firmware, connected devices, or other product-level security contexts. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and continue advancing the promise of robotics and digital technologies to improve outcomes for our customers and patients. This is an onsite role and can be located in our London office or one of these US based office locations: Boston, MA, Lafayette, CO, Minneapolis, MN, or North Haven, CT with a strong preference of Boston or Lafayette. Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.” A Day in The Life The Sr Principal Product Security Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the security of Medtronic Surgical Operating Unit medical device solutions. Reporting to the Director of Product Security, this role drives the integration of advanced cybersecurity measures, identifies and mitigates potential vulnerabilities, and supports initiatives that improve cyber-resiliency throughout the product lifecycle. You will serve as a technical subject matter expert and mentor, collaborating across teams and contributing to long-term improvements in our security posture.

  • Product Security Strategy & Continuous Learning - Engage in continuous professional development to stay updated with the latest cybersecurity trends and threats specific to medical devices and health software products. Contribute to OU and enterprise product security strategy that aligns with industry best practices and regulatory requirements
  • Product Security - Lead efforts to embed security into the product development lifecycle, ensuring that security considerations are integrated from design through deployment. This includes medical device, OT, ICS, IoT, and enterprise security processes / standards
  • Risk Assessment - Systematically perform threat modeling, security risk evaluations, and vulnerability assessments to highlight and mitigate potential security threats throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Security Architecture - Aid in devising and deploying secure medical device solution architectures and product designs, considering factors such as secure boot, secure communications, data protection, secure updates, secure integration, and access controls
  • Security Standards & Testing - Maintain and enforce security standards, policies, and procedures for medical device systems and product development. Oversee security testing activities, including penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and code reviews
  • Security Awareness - Drive and promote security awareness and training across cross-functional product development teams to foster a security-conscious culture
  • Compliance - Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations related to medical device and health software product security, such as NIST, IEC 60601-4-5, IEC 81001-5-1, and others.
  • Vendor Assessment - Evaluate third-party vendors and suppliers for their security practices and ensure they meet our security requirements
  • Incident Management - Lead and support the effective response to security incidents, ensuring swift resolution, proper mitigation, and clear communication to stakeholders, including customers when needed.
  • Documentation - Maintain detailed documentation of security best practices, guidance, configurations, design patterns, shared service designs, inventories, incident response plans, security architectures, and reports
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
  • Minimum 10 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
  • Minimum 5 years of embedded device product security experience in a regulated industry
  • Master’s degree in related engineering or cybersecurity from an accredited institution
  • Ability to adapt to the fast-evolving cybersecurity landscape and implement proactive strategies.
  • Demonstrated aptitude in identifying challenges and providing innovative solutions.
  • Experience in mentoring and leading junior security engineers, fostering growth within the team.
  • Demonstrated experience in staying updated with evolving regulations in the medical device sector.
  • Industry-recognized certifications such as [CISSP, CSSLP, CISM] are highly desirable
  • Proficiency in secure coding methodologies and standards
  • Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
  • We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
  • Health, Dental and vision insurance
  • Health Savings Account
  • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
  • Life insurance
  • Long-term disability leave
  • Dependent daycare spending account
  • Tuition assistance/reimbursement
  • Simple Steps (global well-being program)
  • Incentive plans
  • 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
  • Short-term disability
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
  • Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
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