Principal Product Security Engineer

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

As the Product Security Engineer, you will serve as the cybersecurity owner for the CathWorks platform and software products. You will define and maintain product security architecture, drive secure development practices, oversee security validation activities, and support global regulatory and post-market cybersecurity requirements for medical device products deployed in clinical environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead product threat modeling activities and maintain cybersecurity architecture, attack analyses, and security risk assessments throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define security requirements and conduct design reviews for software features, system integrations, and third-party components.
• Establish and maintain secure Windows platform configurations, including operating system hardening, application control, secure boot, encryption, and access management.
• Integrate cybersecurity requirements into the software development lifecycle through secure coding practices, security testing, vulnerability scanning, and CI/CD security controls.
• Manage Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) processes, third-party component inventories, and vulnerability monitoring activities.
• Define and execute cybersecurity verification activities including penetration testing, fuzz testing, vulnerability assessments, and remediation tracking.
• Prepare cybersecurity documentation for regulatory submissions, audits, and compliance activities supporting global medical device requirements.
• Lead post-market cybersecurity activities including vulnerability triage, risk evaluations, coordinated disclosure processes, incident response support, and customer communications.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience in product security, application security, or cybersecurity engineering.
• Experience with Windows security technologies including access controls, User Account Control (UAC), Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), AppLocker, BitLocker, Group Policy, and operating system hardening.
• Experience performing threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and security risk assessments for software products.
• Experience with secure software development lifecycle practices, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), SBOM generation, and CI/CD security integration.
• Experience with cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Transport Layer Security (TLS), certificate management, and code signing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing regulated medical devices under IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485, IEC 81001-5-1, or AAMI TIR57 requirements.
• Experience supporting FDA cybersecurity submissions and regulatory cybersecurity documentation.
• Knowledge of DICOM, PACS, HL7, FHIR, or medical imaging environments.
• Experience with C#/.NET, C++, Win32, reverse engineering, or exploit analysis.
• Professional cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, GIAC, GXPN, or OSCP.

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. 

‌

‌

Recruitment Fraud Alert 

We are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind: 

Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses. 

Medtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate. 

If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments. 

If you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at AskHR@medtronic.com.