Sr. Product Security Engineer - Post Market Surveillance

Medtronic; Fridley (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic, a global leader in medical technologies, is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer for Post Market Surveillance. You will own vulnerability surveillance, field event assessment, security risk analysis, and post-market compliance across fielded devices and systems.

In this role you will partner with Risk Management and Systems Engineering to update threat models and residual risk, support security operations, and assist with regulatory activities and customer inquiries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field with 4 years of relevant experience or master's with 2 years in security/engineering.
• Extensive experience in product security, cybersecurity, embedded/software systems, or regulated development.
• Knowledge of medical device regulations and standards (FDA, ISO 13485, ISO 81001-5-1).

Responsibilities

• Monitor vulnerability signals, field complaints, and security events affecting released products.
• Assess impact, exploitability, severity, and coordinate remediation and disposition.
• Update Security Risk Analysis, threat models, and residual-risk assessments with teams.
• Support regulatory audits, CAPA, and risk-management activities.

Skills

Product security

Cybersecurity

Embedded software

Regulated development

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

SBOM tooling

Threat modeling tools

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 Sep 2026

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.

A Day in the Life

The Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health R&D organizations, bring together a large set of Medtronic's Neurosciences therapies and their project teams to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. These operating units offer devices and therapies to treat chronic pain, movement disorders, overactive bladder, non-obstructive urinary retention, and much more.

The Senior Product Security Engineer - Post Market Surveillance leads cybersecurity activities for fielded medical devices and supporting systems. The role owns vulnerability surveillance, field security event assessment, security impact and risk analysis, post-market compliance, security operations support, and issue disposition through closure.

Primary Responsibilities

• Vulnerability, Field Event & Security Impact Management

  Monitor and assess vulnerability signals, field complaints, anomalous behavior, and suspected security events affecting released products.

  Determine applicability, exploitability, severity, product impact, and required escalation; coordinate investigation, remediation, and disposition.

  Partner with Risk Management and Systems Engineering to update Security Risk Analysis, threat models, hazard analyses, and residual-risk assessments.

• Security Operations & Product Security Assets

  Maintain visibility of security assets across fielded products, including keys, certificates, credentials, trust anchors, and signing infrastructure.

  Support secure provisioning, certificate/key distribution, rotation, revocation, and retirement with manufacturing and operations teams.

  Maintain Defense-in-Depth, Security-by-Design, security requirements, and SBOM expectations throughout the post-market lifecycle.

• Regulatory, Standards & Customer Compliance

  Assess evolving FDA, EU MDR, China and other cybersecurity requirements and support fielded-product recertification and remediation.

  Map cybersecurity standards and best practices into internal processes and represent Product Security in standards and technical forums.

  Support HCP/customer security and privacy questionnaires, onboarding, and automation of recurring assurance activities.

• Audit, FCA & CAPA

  Represent Product Security during regulatory audits, FCA, CAPA, quality reviews, and risk-management boards.

  Support root-cause analysis, corrective actions, effectiveness verification, and closure.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field with 4 years of relevant experience OR masters degree in related field with 2 years of relevant experience (Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity)
• Extensive experience in product security, cybersecurity, embedded/software systems, or regulated product development.
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with vulnerability management, CVSS, threat modeling, SRA, SBOM/SCA, incident analysis, and medical-device cybersecurity.
• Understanding of medical device regulations and standards (e.g., FDA pre- and post-market guidance on cybersecurity for medical device manufacturers, ISO 13485, ISO 81001-5-1).
• Strong decision-making capabilities, weighing relative costs and benefits to identify the most appropriate solution.
• High attention to detail with a focus on Good Documentation Practices (GDP).
• Ability to communicate complex, technical information in a creative and engaging way to diverse audiences, orally and in writing.
• Excellent prioritization skills, with an aptitude for breaking down work into manageable parts and assessing priority and time required.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and grow productive, trusting, and open relationships with a wide variety of constituencies.

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 ena