​​​In this role, you will join a world class team of systems, mechanical, electrical, software, and quality engineers within theMedtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit (OU). This is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve. 

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 Senior Product Security Engineer is instrumental in ensuring the robust security of our Surgical OU medical device products and solutions. Reporting directly to the Director of Product Security, this pivotal role spearheads the integration of state-of-the-art security measures, identifies potential vulnerabilities, and champions initiatives to bolster cyber-resiliency throughout the product’s life cycle. A profound understanding of regulated embedded devices, environments that underpin client-facing medical device solutions, and adherence to product security compliance frameworks is essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Security Strategy & Continuous Learning - Participate in ongoing professional development to stay current with emerging cybersecurity trends and threats related to medical devices and health software products. Contribute to the development and refinement of product security strategies within the Operating Unit (OU), ensuring alignment with established industry best practices and regulatory requirements. Collaborate with senior team members to implement security measures and continuously improve product security processes.

• Product Security - Support and lead integration of security into the product development lifecycle, ensuring that security considerations are incorporated from design to deployment. Assist in implementing security measures across medical devices, OT, ICS, IoT, and enterprise security processes/standards. Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure security is a core part of the product design and development process.

• Risk Assessment - Conduct threat modeling, security risk evaluations, and vulnerability assessments to identify and mitigate potential security risks throughout the product lifecycle. Work under limited supervision to address security threats and provide recommendations for risk mitigation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure risks are evaluated and managed in alignment with security best practices and regulatory requirements.

• Security Architecture - Contribute to the design and deployment of secure medical device architectures and product designs. Assist in the implementation of key security features such as secure boot, secure communications, data protection, secure updates, secure integration, and access controls. Collaborate with senior engineers to ensure that security architecture aligns with product security requirements and best practices. Provide input on security design decisions and work to ensure effective implementation throughout the product lifecycle.

• Security Standards & Testing - Assist in maintaining and implementing security standards, policies, and procedures for medical device systems and product development. 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.

• Security Awareness - Contribute to promoting security awareness and assist in delivering training across cross-functional product development teams. Help foster a security-conscious culture by sharing best practices and providing support on security-related topics. Collaborate with engineers to ensure that teams understand the importance of security in product development and work towards embedding security into everyday practices.

• 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.

Additional responsibilities:

• Provides product security engineering recommendations and resolves integration and testing issues.
• Builds a standardized set of security product requirements and produces metrics to report performance against those requirements.
• Detects and mitigates security risks, responds to product security incidents, and works with customers regarding product security related issues.
• Leads or participates in security architecture and design review meetings.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experienceor advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

• Minimum 2 years of embedded device product security experience in a regulated industry

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in related engineering or cybersecurity from an accredited institution.

• Ability to adapt to the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape and contribute to proactive security strategies.

• Demonstrated ability to identify challenges and propose effective solutions.

• Experience working with junior engineers and willingness to provide guidance and mentorship.

• Familiarity with evolving regulations in the medical device sector and staying updated with relevant security standards.

• Proficiency in secure coding practices and methodologies is highly desirable.