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Senior Product Security Engineer

Medtronic
Northridge, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Oct 2024

About the role

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

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.

The Medtronic Diabetes organization is looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer to join our Software Cybersecurity Organization. Be a technical leader within a team responsible for solutions for Medtronic’s medical devices. Lead the work to security monitoring and secure operation of connected medical device systems.

At Medtronic Diabetes, our IoT solutions, Application and Cloud systems connect a planet’s worth of medical device health data to deliver patient and hospital solutions that make a real difference in how people live their lives every day. This key cybersecurity role is for a hands-on engineer who is detail oriented, entrepreneurial and driven to get her/his products and services delivered with high quality and security You will contribute heavily to our goal of delivering this increasingly complex and interconnected system of components that requires industry-leading security thinking.

A Day in the Life


You will have an opportunity to contribute to advancing security, while working with other Security Engineers, Architects, Program Managers, and Developers throughout the R&D organization to instill the core security mindset and culture. This job also provides an opportunity to collaborate with the broader Medtronic security leadership team, external and internal cybersecurity researchers, Global IT Organization, and stay on top of current developments for the benefit of Medtronic products and services.

In this role, you will contribute to maintaining cybersecurity of Medtronic Diabetes’ products through:

  • Risk Management - Facilitate technical teams in threat modeling, security risk evaluations, and vulnerability assessments to identify and mitigate potential security risks throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Building Security Awareness - Collaborate with the product R&D teams helping them to understand the security mindset, guiding them to implement specific security controls for product/system wide security needs.
  • Ensuring Security By Design - Support integration of security into the product development lifecycle, ensuring that security considerations are incorporated from design to deployment. Assist in implementing security measures across of product line – embedded, mobile, or web services. Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure security is a core part of the product design and development process.
  • Verifying Secure Implementation - Contribute to security testing activities, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and code reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure adherence to security standards and participate in evaluating testing results to identify and address security vulnerabilities. Provide guidance on testing procedures and contribute to continuous improvement of security practices.
  • Maintaining Standards Compliance - Assist in maintaining and implementing security standards, policies, and procedures for medical device systems and product development.
  • Learning Every Day - Perform emerging threat and vulnerability research.  Identify and evaluate new areas for research, perform analysis into emerging threats, including proactive security research on the technologies under consideration for new product capabilities.
  • Assessing our Vendors - Evaluate third-party vendors and suppliers for their security practices and ensure they meet our security requirements.
  • Assisting Incident Response - Support the effective response to security incidents, ensuring swift resolution, proper mitigation, and clear communication to stakeholders and management.

** This position is onsite in Northridge, CA (hybrid - 3 days per week)

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field and 4+ years of cybersecurity experience
  • Or Advanced Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field and 2+ years of cybersecurity experience

Nice to Have

  • Experience with at least one of the following:
    • Embedded Security Experience
    • Mobile Application Security Experience
    • Cloud Security Experience
    • Wireless communication systems knowledge and experience
    • PKI Key management system design
    • Penetra

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