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Product Security Engineer
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Job Description

Security is the key component across all products we develop, and we must continually ensure the

security mindset culture and philosophy is integrated into all security practices within our development

processes. Ensuring security and privacy for our customers, clients and their patients is a key mantra in

all our work. We achieve this by making everyone accountable for security and strive to continually

enhance and improve our Security mindset culture. We require and encourage collaboration and

candour between teams and management, and the right candidate should be a positive, forward-

looking individual. They must be self-directed requiring minimal daily direction, collaborates often and

effectively with project team members, presents a positive and professional demeanour with

customers, and excels at solving difficult problems.


The Product Security Engineer defines and embeds secure-by-design practices across the SDLC, including

security requirements, risk assessments, SBOM and OSS supply chain governance, vulnerability

management, and security architecture reviews. The role partners closely with R&D, Quality, and global

security teams, providing technical leadership in secure coding, threat modeling, and remediation

strategies, while supporting compliance within a regulated QMS environment.


This role provides the scope to lead and enhance security for our next generation of products, while

ensuring the current products are kept secure, to deal with the constant changes in the threat

landscape. Day to day primary responsibilities include leadership in enhancing security tools and

processes, relationship management, providing guidance to the team to deliver quality and secure

application and our clients. Relationship building, influencing change, and creating synergies are key.

These requirements can be achieved by leveraging and creating alignment with the extended team

within BD, suppliers/partners and with the larger BD organization of resources and experts.


The candidate will need to possess software development skills specifically related to implementation of

security requirements and secure coding standards, e.g., NIST SP 800-53, OWASP, and MS Secure Coding

Standards. The candidate shall be able to evaluate product designs and provide solutions to remediate

security vulnerabilities through product security risk assessments, vulnerability scans, and static and

dynamic code analysis tools. In addition to defining security requirement for new product development,

the role requires supporting teams in the remediating vulnerabilities with existing products.


The Product Security Engineer will participate in a full medical software development life cycle and

adhere to a well-defined quality management system and Product Security Development Framework.

Candidates will gain exposure to modern challenges including connected devices, cloud-integrated

systems, and automated security tooling, with clear progression toward senior technical leadership. We

offer a collaborative, well-resourced environment, access to global expertise, and strong investment in

training, certification, and career development.


Responsibilities:


 Educate engineering teams to understand security requirements and find practical solutions

on how to implement into new and existing products

 Implement software security solutions and architect/design products in accordance with

industry accepted standards for medical device security including encryption, disaster

recovery, authentication, audit logging, hardening measures, patch management, and

vulnerability monitoring.

 Lead product security risk assessments, hazard analysis, and provide vulnerability

remediation guidance and mentoring to product development software engineers both on

and off-site.

 Support in the development of Product Security Documentation including:

 Providing standardized Product Security documentation

 Using document management platforms (SAP, DocuSign, SharePoint)

 Organize and support the document review and approval process

 Ensure that deliverables are delivered punctually and to the required level of

quality

 Lead technical design reviews and code inspections. Provide clear, actionable feedback for

project team members

 Assist product development teams in creating Incident and Vulnerability Management Plans

and Product Security White Papers

 Participate on product security incident response teams.

 Interface with other technical departments such as Penetration Testing Team, Systems,

Hardware Engineering, Quality, and technical services

 Assure adherence to BD development policies and software quality procedures


Qualifications:

 BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, other related

engineering field or equivalent work experience required

 Minimum of 3 years of experience in IT-Security architecture, secure software development,

systems & architecture concepts, and designs

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:

 Working experience with various encryption algorithms and PKI solutions

 Understanding of security issues and solutions for embedded devices

 Experience with Dynamic and static code analysis tools

 Solid understanding of networking and related security aspects and common attacks

 Demonstrated understanding of developing in a regulated environment and adhering to a

quality management system

 Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills are essential

 Demonstrated positive work ethic with a strong commitment to achieving project goals

 Solid understanding of Microsoft Office products and tools


Nice-to-Haves:

 Experience with embedded devices and IOT especially in the IT-Security domain

 Experience with Security tools and distributions (BurpSuite, Nessus, NMAP, …)

 Understanding of Wi-Fi security

 Knowledge of Completing a track Trace and plan using a Security Requirements Traceability

Matrix (SRTM) or similar tool with the goal of tracking

 Security Requirements

 Source of Requirement

 Requirement Objective

 Verification Method

 Experience working in a regulated (FDA, MDR) environment with medical instrumentation is

a plus

 Work experience in network security along networking fundamentals (IP protocol, firewalls

etc.) strongly desired

 Recognized Security certifications (CISSP, CEH, CSSLP etc.)


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