Sr Principal Product Security Engineer

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.

• 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.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $187,200.00 - $280,800.00. The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.