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A Day in the Life

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 (CRDN) 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.

Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business is looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer - Software 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.

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.

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A Day in The Life Of:

The Principal Product Security Engineer - Software 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 Principal 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 modelling, 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

Key Skills & Experience

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Level 8 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical engineering, or technical field.
Minimum of 7 years of technical experience, or advanced degree with 5 years of technical experience
Previous experience as security engineer for software products
Experience in cybersecurity, threat modelling, 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

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

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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. 

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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 78,320.00 EUR - 117,480.00 EUR |

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

About Medtronic

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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.

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Principal Product Security Engineer – Software

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