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A Day in the Life

We are seeking an Engineering Manager focused on Product Security to lead a dynamic team responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring security solutions for Medtronic’s cardiac medical devices and infrastructure. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills to drive product security initiatives, ensure compliance with regulatory standards, and foster collaboration across various teams.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Lead and manage a team of engineers and cybersecurity professionals dedicated to product security for cardiac medical devices.
• Execute a comprehensive Product Security strategy aligned with Medtronic’s cardiac business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional global teams (R&D, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs) to integrate security practices throughout the product lifecycle.
• Oversee the identification and remediation of vulnerabilities, ensuring timely and effective incident response.
• Establish and maintain security standards, frameworks, and best practices for product development and deployment.
• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to inform security strategies and practices.
• Communicate complex security concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders, including executive leadership, customers, and regulatory bodies.
• Foster a culture of security awareness and continuous improvement within the team and across the organization.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery of product security initiatives.
• Drive best-in-class Product Security design for new cardiac product development, and released products, ensuring scalable and risk-mitigated designs.
• Execute risk-based security assessment processes and implement them across product efforts.
• Build and sustain a product security team capable of assessing and testing new and released cardiac products that transcend technology (ex. embedded, mobile, web application…)

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 15+ years of experience in engineering or cybersecurity roles.
• Proven expertise in product security, particularly in medical device or other highly regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, risk management processes, and regulatory requirements for medical devices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, fostering collaboration and innovation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• CISSP, OSCP or similar cybersecurity certifications.
• Experience with IoT devices, embedded, mobile, cloud security, and data protection architectures.
• Familiarity with security incident management and operations center (SOC) practices.
• Knowledge of national and international laws related to medical device cybersecurity.
• Experience in healthcare or other heavily regulated industries.
• Understanding compliance with FDA, GDPR, EUMDR, and other international regulations.

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.
 

 

 

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

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