Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Additional Location(s): US–MA–Marlborough

Diversity – Innovation – Caring – Global Collaboration – Winning Spirit – High Performance

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 product cybersecurity engineer whose primary responsibility is to operationalize and support various cybersecurity activities, including understanding and documenting the security posture of the company's products, applications, and supporting infrastructure as well as compliance to the Quality systems and processes. The cybersecurity engineer will assist in implementing the individual product cybersecurity plan.

The candidate must have a combination of strong communication and technical skills in order to implement and support the functional and technical aspects of the cybersecurity plan and work collaboratively with a team of internal staff and consultants to execute its components.

This role is part of the Urology Research and Development (R&D) organization. Working alongside a team of analysts, IT/R&D engineers, and architects, this role will support pre and post market product security activities, such as application security, vulnerability assessments, threat modeling, penetration testing, security analysis tools, hospital cybersecurity inquiries and contract reviews, among other areas.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Support and manage applicable tools for pre and post market security testing; support integration of the tools into the quality processes.
• Support post–market activities to identify known/unknown vulnerabilities associated with Boston Scientific's products, including new/sustaining products, providing inputs/technical expertise to multiple teams to eliminate/mitigate identified cybersecurity risks.
• Monitor for change in security controls of products and update the product inventory and tracking database as needed and communicate to stakeholders.
• Support negotiations of hospital cybersecurity agreements by reviewing technical clauses with Legal and Research & Development subject matter experts.
• Support, as needed, security risk assessment and threat modelling services for Urology products businesses and product development life cycle.
• Support, as needed, application security reviews and vulnerability/penetration testing of Boston Scientific's medical devices and software.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be able to learn technical aspects of Boston Scientific's products and related customer needs, and also influence "change of ways."
• Foster a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• May lead and control the activities in one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups, projects/programs and/or operations.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. federal/country and regulatory requirements).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• 10+ years in Research & Development and/or Information Technology experience, or similar preferably in cybersecurity roles in medical device development or health care organizations.
• Drive for learning cybersecurity and a passion for securing products.
• Experience with vulnerability analysis of Windows and Linux operating systems as well as software.
• Experience across various OS platforms such as Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Mobile (iOS, Android).
• General understanding of cybersecurity techniques, controls, and methodologies from frameworks such as NIST Special Publications and ISO standards.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cybersecurity certifications (e.g. Network+, Security+, CSSLP, HCISPP, CEH, CISSP) a plus.