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A Day in the Life

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

The Medtronic Diabetes organization is looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to join our Software Cybersecurity Organization. Be a technical leader within a team responsible for solutions for Medtronic’s medical devices. Lead the work to security monitoring and secure operation of connected medical device systems.

At Medtronic Diabetes, our IoT solutions, Application and Cloud systems connect a planet’s worth of medical device health data to deliver patient and hospital solutions that make a real difference in how people live their lives every day. This key cybersecurity role is for a hands-on engineer who is detail oriented, entrepreneurial and driven to get her/his products and services delivered with high quality and security You will contribute heavily to our goal of delivering this increasingly complex and interconnected system of components that requires industry-leading security thinking.

You will have an opportunity to contribute to advancing security, while working with other Security Engineers, Architects, Program Managers, and Developers throughout the R&D organization to instill the core security mindset and culture. This job also provides an opportunity to collaborate with the broader Medtronic security leadership team, external and internal cybersecurity researchers, Global IT Organization, and stay on top of current developments for the benefit of Medtronic products and services.

In this role, you will contribute to maintaining cybersecurity of Medtronic Diabetes’ products through:

Leading Risk Management - Train engineering teams on, and facilitate threat modeling, security risk evaluations, and vulnerability assessments to identify and mitigate potential security risks throughout the product lifecycle.

Building Security Awareness - Collaborate with the product R&D teams helping them to understand the security mindset, guiding them to implement specific security controls for product/system wide security needs.

Creating Security Architectures - Contribute to the definition and design of secure medical device architectures and product designs, as well as secure manufacturing and deployment designs. Collaborate with senior engineers to ensure that security architecture aligns with product security requirements and best practices.

Ensuring Security By Design - 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 full product line – embedded, mobile, and web services. Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure security is a core part of the product design and development process.

Verifying Secure Implementation - 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.

Maintaining Standards Compliance - Assist in maintaining and implementing security standards, policies, and procedures for medical device systems and product development. Ensure our security procedures are in 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, FDA Pre and Post Market Cybersecurity Guidance, ISO 62443, FedRamp, ISO 27001, and others.

Learning Every Day - Participate in ongoing professional development to stay current with emerging cybersecurity trends and threats related to medical devices and health software products. Update Cybersecurity strategies based on changing best practices. Perform emerging threat and vulnerability research. Identify and evaluate new areas for research, perform analysis into emerging threats, including proactive security research on the technologies under consideration for new product capabilities.

Assessing our Vendors - Evaluate third-party vendors and suppliers for their security practices and ensure they meet our security requirements. Monitor ongoing performance of penetration test and other vendors to ensure standards stay high.

Coordinating Incident Response - Lead and support the effective response to security incidents, ensuring swift resolution, proper mitigation, and clear communication to stakeholders, including customers when needed.

** This position is onsite in Northridge, CA (hybrid - 3 days per week)

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field and 7+ years of cybersecurity experience
Or Advanced Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field and 5+ years of cybersecurity experience

Nice to Have

Experience with 2 or more of the following:
- Embedded Security Experience
- Mobile Application Security Experience
- Cloud Security Experience
- Wireless communication systems knowledge and experience
- PKI Key management system design
- Penetration or Red Team testing of IoT devices or Mobile Applications
- Security Incident Management

Prior cybersecurity security design or testing experience in critical industries such as Medical, Aerospace, Automotive, Defense
Programming skills in one or more of the following: C, C++, Python, Flutter
Experience in medical device technology
Experience with Security Frameworks and compliance standards (e.g., ISO 27001, ISO 81001-5-1, NIST, FDA Premarket Guidance)
Threat Modeling Experience (STRIDE)

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.

Physical Job Requirements

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$145,600.00 - $218,400.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

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Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ 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.

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