Principal Product Security Engineer

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Johnson & Johnsons MedTech cybersecurity team is recruiting for an experienced Principal Product Security Engineer. The role can be remote-based or located onsite in Danvers MA or Raritan NJ. This role will require up to 10% travel.

As the worlds most comprehensive MedTech business J&J MedTech Companies are building on a century of experience merging science and technology to shape the future of health and benefit even more people around the world. With our unparalleled breadth depth and reach across heart recovery surgery orthopedics and interventional solutions were working to profoundly change the way care is delivered. We are in this for life. For more information visit Johnson & Johnson we all belong.

Are you passionate about security and interested in joining a community of collaborative colleagues working in a Patient First! culture If thats you we have an immediate opportunity for a Principal Product Security Engineer to join the Product Cybersecurity team to help ensure security is implemented by design for this top-performing medical device company. This is an exciting opportunity to impact development initiatives that will shape future product development and industry standards. You will own the Product Security process for the products that you will support throughout the product development lifecycle which includes both pre-market and post-market processes engineering teams. If you are eager to leverage your security risk and compliance skills to make a difference and directly impact patient lives this could be perfect for you.

Purpose: The Principal Product Security Engineer will be responsible for implementation of J&Js enterprise Product Security strategy and framework throughout the Heart Recovery portfolio of medical devices and supporting platforms. This role will join Abiomed part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech to provide technical expertise and strategic leadership in securing Impella heart pump technologies next-generation cardiac support systems and connected medical devices. This role is responsible for delivering security architecture cryptographic controls embedded system protections/controls and threat mitigation techniques to ensure robust regulatory-compliant security across the product lifecycle. Specific responsibilities include supporting heart recovery throughout a new products development phases review product security requirements and recommend security design solutions complete Quality documentation threat modelling coordinate third-party penetration testing software architecture review and design recommendations code analysis and other security testing work as needed.

Additionally this position will have post market responsibilities for Heart Recovery marketed devices include monitoring for new vulnerabilities assisting with patching and remediation plans as well as responding to customer security questionnaires and reviewing security language within contractual agreements as needed.

• Drive alignment to J&J Product Securitys overarching framework.

• Support the Product Security strategy and objectives within Heart Recovery

• Define and implement secure boot firmware integrity validation and anti-tamper mechanisms to protect Heart Recovery Device firmware against unauthorized modification.

• Enforce cryptographic protocols for data-at-rest and data-in-transit ensuring compliance with FDA cybersecurity requirements NIST 800-175 FIPS 140-3 and IEC 62443.

• Define and implement key management infrastructure (PKI HSMs TPMs and secure enclave integration) for device identity authentication and software signing.

• Develop real-time vulnerability assessment techniques for detecting security flaws in wireless communications (Bluetooth LE NFC Wi-Fi 5G proprietary RF) used in Heart Recoverys medical devices.

• Implement Zero Trust security for device-to-cloud connectivity integrating mTLS and continuous authentication models into clinical applications.

• Oversee secure OTA (over-the-air) update mechanisms ensuring firmware rollbacks code signing and supply chain integrity validation.

• Embedded Security & Secure Development Lifecycle:

• Lead Secure Development Lifecycle practices integrating threat modeling static/dynamic analysis fuzz testing and formal verification into the development process.

• Work with R&D Engineering to define hardware security architecture including trust zones hardware root of trust (HRoT) and secure microcontroller protections

• Implement memory safety strategies to mitigate buffer overflows side-channel attacks and execution vulnerabilities in real-time operating systems (RTOS) and bare-metal firmware.

• Respond to customer cybersecurity questionnaires and contractual language for post-market medical devices under your responsibility as necessary.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent
• 8 years industry experience in Information Security
• 5 years experience with embedded system IOT or medical device cybersecurity
• Experience generating Threat models without the use of threat modeling tools
• Experience performing risk assessments utilizing CVSS 3.1 or higher with STRIDE per element
• Ability to write technical security requirements for embedded systems and web platforms based on the latest regulations
• Understanding and execution of third-party penetration testing vulnerability scanning CVSS and/or other general security testing principles
• Experience supporting regulatory security submissions ensuring compliance with FDA Cybersecurity Guidance (2025) EU MDR NIST 800-53 IMDRF and AAMI TIR57
• Knowledge of real-time operating systems hardening techniques
• Knowledge of cloud security principles
• Ability to generate SBOMs from Software source code and Binaries Firmware and Operating Systems
• Ability to generate pre-market risk assessments against the threat model leveraging STRIDE and post-market risk assessments via SCA SBOM scans.
• Ability to generate the security architecture views for medical devices that could include: Global System View Multi-Patient Harm View Updateability/Patchability view and detailing system boundaries data flows and external interactions to show risk mitigation ensuring transparency and supporting post-market management
• Ability to translate technical security requirements into solutions
• Ability to provide secure coding recommendations and execute reviews
• Data privacy experience including HIPAA and GDPR
• Understanding of industry standards and certifications such as HITRUST & ISO 27001
• bility to work autonomously and proactively seek out product security opportunities within heart recovery
• Ability to lead large projects and proven ability to track to project plan timelines from a security perspective
• Ability to create and deliver cybersecurity awareness campaigns and other communications
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Customer focus (internal & external)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills able to network interface and influence at all levels of the organization cross sector cross-functionally and globally
• Strong leadership skills

Preferred:

• MS and/or advanced degree
• Experience leading or participating in formal security audits
• Experience with Operating Systems such as QNX QOS Yocto Linux Ubuntu
• Familiarity with FDA and/or other global regulatory cybersecurity guidance requirements and submission process
• Experience with web applications and server hardening (i.e. AWS Azure) including knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and blue teaming techniques
• Experience in cybersecurity pre-sales
• Software development experience
• CISSP CISM or other security certification

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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