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Medtronic Senior Product Security Engineer - Software in Mounds View, Minnesota

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Apr 2025

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.

A Day in the Life

Senior Software Engineer – Product Security

Careers that Change Lives

Medtronic is a global leader in medical technology, services, and solutions that take on the healthcare industry's greatest challenges. Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join the Coronary & Renal Denervation team and help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. Come for a job, stay for a career.

Treatments We Offer:

Renal Denervation

Key Technologies

Symplicity Spyral™ Renal Denervation (RDN) System

Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business is looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of energy based therapeutic medical devices to treat hypertension. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to support the newly approved therapy medical device software and participate in the design and development of next generation medical devices and software products.

This position is in Mounds View, MN within the Coronary & Renal Denervation Operating Unit and requires on-site presence four days a week.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

A Day in The Life

The Senior Product Security Engineer is instrumental in ensuring the robust security of our products and solutions. 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. An understanding of regulated embedded devices, environments that underpin client-facing medical device solutions, and adherence to product security compliance frameworks is essential.

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Product Security Engineer – Software role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

  • 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 scrum teams to ensure security is a core part of the product design and development process in Agile environment.

  • 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 scrum 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.

  • 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.

The successful candidate will have:

  • Previous experience as security engineer for software products

  • Experience in cybersecurity, threat modeling, security incident management, and contributing to proactive security strategies.

  • Hands-on experience in developing, debugging, and troubleshooting SW issues.

  • Experience working in agile software development teams

Qualifications -

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS :

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical engineering, or related technical field.

  • Minimum of 4 years of technical experience, or advanced degree with 2 years of technical experience

Nice to Have

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

  • Security certifications (e.g. GSEC, CISSP, CISA, GCIH, CC)

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

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

  • 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.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$123,200.00 - $184,800.00

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 (https://www3.benefitsolver.com/benefits/BenefitSolverView?page_name=signon&co_num=30601&co_affid=medtronic)

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 95,000+ 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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com) .

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

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here (https://www.medtronic.com/content/dam/medtronic-wide/public/united-states/employee-support-services/careers/la-county-legal-notice.pdf) a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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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 95,000+ 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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

  • Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

  • Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

  • Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees) .

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