Principal Product Security Penetration Testing Engineer

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 31 Mar 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

Act boldly. Compete to win. Move with speed and decisiveness. Foster belonging. Deliver results…the right way. That’s the Medtronic Mindset — our cultural norms. Our brand is rooted in action, not just words. The Medtronic Mindset defines the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your extraordinary potential to ensure future generations live better, healthier lives.

The Medtronic Product Security Office (PSO), within the Enterprise Quality organization, provides corporate-level oversight, services, strategy, and collaboration across the Medtronic Operating Units to safeguard medical devices.

The Penetration Testing team within the Product Security Office is responsible for providing attacker-like testing, product assessments, and other feedback on the security of devices for Medtronic’s products to the distributed Operating Units across the organization.

The Principal Product Security Penetration Testing Engineer will execute complex testing to identify vulnerabilities in Medtronic products and assist with the identification of mitigation strategies. This testing will occur throughout a product’s lifecycle for new product development and market-released products. This person will report to Enterprise Quality, members of this team will consult with product development and support organizations, scope assessments, conduct testing, summarize results, and report findings; all with a high degree of quality, autonomy, and speed.
 

Position Responsibilities:

• Scope, conduct, and report results of product security penetration tests to key stakeholders

• Contribute ideas to the team to help design test scenarios and improve penetration testing processes

• Coach junior members on the team and review testing results to ensure accuracy and completeness

• Rate the severity of vulnerabilities that are identified through testing

• Stay up to date on current security knowledge

• Employ a variety of test methods to perform comprehensive vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of products

• Identify and leverage appropriate tools and techniques to accomplish testing

• Coordinate with product development engineers to ensure understanding of findings

• Document, communicate, and summarize the results of testing to relevant stakeholders, including formal test reports

• Maintain awareness of existing and emerging security research and leverage that knowledge during internal testing activities (an “attacker-like” approach to testing)

• Analyze, triage and recreate vulnerabilities submitted to Medtronic by 3rd party security researchers

• Understand current regulations and utilize that knowledge to inform internal testing activities

• Show creativity and innovation in all aspects of your responsibilities

• Operate with a high level of independence

• Contribute to Product Security Office Fiscal Year Initiatives and strategic plans

• Support ad hoc Product Security Office campaigns and initiatives

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Bachelors degree required

• Minimum of 7 years of cybersecurity and/or secure software engineering experience or advanced degree with 5 years of cybersecurity and/or secure software engineering experience.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Product Security

• Penetration Testing Certifications (e.g. CEH, OSCP, OSWA, GPEN, GMOB, Pentest+, etc.).

• Other Information Security Certifications (e.g. Security+, CISSP, CISM, GSEC, etc.).

• Experience assessing and testing the embedded security of regulated or safety critical devices.

• Knowledge of the medical device industry.

• Experience performing hardware and software penetration testing.

• Experience working as an engineer or developer for embedded device hardware or firmware, mobile applications, web applications, or desktop applications.

• Understanding of the security development process and product development process.

• Ability to be creative to think “outside the box”.

• Experience facilitating working sessions.

• Knowledge in risk management and assessment methodologies, security frameworks and relevant global regulations.

• Strong capability to research and evaluate emerging technologies.

• Demonstrated ability to be flexible and take a proactive approach to managing change.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience working in a highly regulated industry and/or a formal quality system.

• Occasional after-hours availability to accommodate different regional and global partners.

• Strong in interpersonal communication and demonstrate a collaborative work style.

• Comfortable working in an ambiguous environment.

• Innovative thinker; ability to think outside of the current norms and processes

• Independent self-starter

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Expected Travel: Up to 20%

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):$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

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.

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