Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About The Role

Boston Scientific is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with a background in DevSecOps and the design, development, and testing of cybersecurity features and controls in a regulated industry. This individual will be responsible for driving the cybersecurity strategy and DevSecOps throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.

Be a part of the Interventional Cardiology team, one of Boston Scientific’s most product-diverse divisions, supporting R&D in the design of exciting products and business development activities.

Work Mode

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration. This role follows a hybrid or onsite work model, requiring employees to be in our Maple Grove (Arbor Lakes), MN office at least three days per week.

Relocation:

Relocation assistance may be available for select out-of-state candidates.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Integrate security into the product development lifecycle of multiple product lines.
• Foster a collaborative security culture from conception to decommission.
• Collaborate with product development teams to embed security controls throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
• Lead threat modeling using STRIDE and security risk assessments, identifying, and evaluating potential threats and safety issues.
• Elicit and define product security needs and requirements; define product security requirements, design specifications, and verification and validation strategies.
• Establish best practices and automate processes for vulnerability detection, secure coding, configuration management, and patching.
• Implement risk mitigation strategies and maintain risk management documentation.
• Oversee and enhance incident response plans and processes, ensuring rapid and effective resolution of security incidents.
• Manage secrets, identity and access management to ensure least privilege access.
• Stay current with emerging regulations and standards related to medical device security (e.g., FDA Premarket Guidance, Post-market Cybersecurity Guidance, TIR 57).
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders (Software Development, Quality, Regulatory, IT) to align security goals and requirements.
• Model resiliency and show leadership by presenting topics to the Security Champions program.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Mininum of 5 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, with a recent focus on product security as it extends to the IoT cloud.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps tools.
• Proven experience in design and architecture reviews for complex, embedded medical devices or similar technologies.
• Demonstrated history of creating and executing security risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
• In-depth understanding of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST Cybersecurity Framework) including best practices for defense in depth.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for interfacing technical teams, stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, bridging gaps between technical, regulatory, and business functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience working in the medical device industry or a similarly regulated environment; security architecture or medical device administration experience in healthcare settings is also a plus.
• Development experience in securing Yocto and desktop Linux, Windows IoT, or Android
• Deep knowledge of the deployment environment for medical devices into health delivery organizations, including Active Directory (AD) or Single Sign On (SSO) integrations.
• Hands-on experience with IoT cloud deployments such as Azure or AWS.
• Experience writing code, with secure coding practices, vulnerability scanning tools, and penetration testing methodologies.
• Knowledge of embedded systems security, network security, endpoint protections, wireless communications, network protocols, HSM and PKI.
• Experience supporting VA Handbook 6500 compliance.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., GIAC, ISSEP, ISSAP, CRISC) are a plus.
• Experience with vulnerability and risk assessments including use of CVSS.

Requisition ID: 634840

Minimum Salary: $ 85000

Maximum Salary: $ 161500

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs.

At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at and follow us on LinkedIn.

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

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Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement. The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.