Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. 

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. 
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. 

The Opportunity 

This position works out in Irving Texas in the Diagnostics division.  

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level. 

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology. 

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges. 

What You’ll Work On

The Product Security Engineer will serve as a Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our Cloud-Based software applications as well as a software engineer for our embedded Medical Device software.  They will work closely with product development in the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure software applications in the cutting-edge medical and non-medical software applications. They will evaluate incoming cybersecurity signals, assess the impact to on-market products and provide responses and documentation updates in compliance with our security policies and standards.  For new products and software updates, they will be participating in the design and development activities with focus on cybersecurity – threat modeling, secure design, implementation, and documentation. 

Key performance indicators for this role include assessing and maintaining compliance to security policies and standards, timely provisioning of product security assessments, and support for auditing of our secure product lifecycle for the portfolio of products. The role requires the ability to work in an environment that is fast paced, to work independently, and to apply the latest security design and tooling strategies available. 

• Responsible for ensuring products are safe, secure, and are compliant with division, corporate, and industry regulation and meet customer and patient security expectations. 
• Works within an agile, collaborative, multi-discipline environment to produce compliant and secure products.   
• Identifies cybersecurity risks, vulnerabilities, and assists in concepting and delivering mitigating functionalities.   
• Perform vulnerability assessments - analyze impact of vulnerabilities on software and develop/implement mit