Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Additional Location(s): US-MA-Marlborough; US-CA-San Diego

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.           

 

About the role:

Boston Scientific is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer with a background in the design, development, and testing of cybersecurity features and controls in a regulated industry. This individual will be responsible for guiding the cybersecurity strategy throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.

 

Be a part of the Interventional Cardiology team, one of Boston Scientific’s most product-diverse divisions, supporting R&D in the design of exciting products and business development activities.

 

Work Mode:
At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration. This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring employees to be in our Maple Grove, MN or Marlborough, MA or San Diego, CA office at least three days per week.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead threat modeling using STRIDE and security risk assessments, identifying, and evaluating potential threats and safety issues.
• Elicit and define product security needs and requirements; define product security architectures and design specifications, and verification and validation strategies.
• Stay current with emerging regulations and standards related to medical device security (e.g., FDA Premarket Guidance, Post-market Cybersecurity Guidance, TIR 57).
• Collaborate with product development teams to embed security controls throughout the design, development, and maintenance phases.
• Establish best practices and processes for secure coding, configuration management, and patching.
• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and maintain risk management documentation.
• Oversee and enhance incident response plans and processes, ensuring rapid and effective resolution of security incidents.
• Drive continuous improvement of vulnerability management, including the evaluation and deployment of necessary patches or updates.
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders (Software Development, Quality, Regulatory, IT) to align security goals and requirements.
• Model resiliency and show leadership by presenting topics to the Security Champions program.

 

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 9+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, with a recent focus on product security as it extends to the IoT cloud.
• Proven experience leading security design and architecture reviews for complex, embedded medical devices or similar technologies.
• Demonstrated history of creating and executing security risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
• In-depth understanding of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST Cybersecurity Framework) including best practices for defense in depth.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for interfacing technical teams, stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, bridging gaps between technical, regulatory, and business functions.

 

Preferred qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in the medical device industry or a similarly regulated environment; security architecture or medical device administration experience in healthcare settings is also a plus.
• Development experience in securing Windows IoT, Android, or Yocto Linux.
• Deep knowledge of the deployment environment for medical devices into health delivery organizations, including Active Directory (AD) or Single Sign On (SSO) integrations.
• Hands-on experience with IoT cloud deployments such as Azure or AWS.
• Experience writing code, with secure codi