At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

In this engineering-focused role you will join a world-class team of systems mechanical electrical software and quality engineers within Medtronics 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.

Make your impact by exploring a career with the worlds leading Medical Device company striving to alleviate pain restore health and extend life.

A Day in The Life

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 IECIECand 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

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors 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

Nice to Have

• Masters 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

Physical Job Requirements

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.

Benefits & Compensation

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.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple 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 matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital 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.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

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 95000 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.

Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.

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 addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.