Job Description
Sr. Product Security Engineer What You'll Do: The Senior Product Security Engineer, based in Burlington Massachusetts, is a critical, high-level engineering position tasked to leading security efforts across the product lifecycle, ensuring products meet regulatory expectations and industry best practices for cybersecurity. This role provides both hands-on technical expertise and cross-functional leadership, with influence over product strategy, development processes, and post-market security posture. Security Architecture & Requirements • Define security requirements and risk mitigations for new products and features. • Translate regulatory and industry security standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 27001, NIST, OWASP) into actionable product requirements. • Develop and maintain security architecture diagrams and models for software and integrated systems. Development Lifecycle Security • Embed secure development practices (threat modeling, secure coding, code review standards) into the software development lifecycle. • Define and support secure CI/CD practices, including secrets management, dependency management, and supply-chain security. • Partner with DevOps/IT to secure cloud infrastructure, build pipelines, and deployment environments. Testing & Validation • Assist the testing team with security testing efforts for new and on-market products, including penetration testing, fuzzing, and static/dynamic code analysis. • Update and maintain vulnerability management processes, including SBOM creation and maintenance. • Collaborate with QA to integrate automated security testing into regression and release pipelines. • Documentation & Compliance • Generate and maintain pre-market security documentation to support regulatory submissions (e.g., security risk assessments, security architecture views, threat models, FDA cybersecurity guidance compliance). • Maintain records of vulnerability assessments, mitigations, and patch processes. • Support audit and inspection readiness with thorough, traceable documentation Vulnerability & Incident Management • Manage product vulnerability assessment and mitigation activities, both pre-market and post-market. • Coordinate cross-functional response to newly discovered vulnerabilities, including communication, remediation, and regulatory reporting. • Track and monitor vulnerability disclosures from third-party libraries and components. Cross-Functional Leadership • Act as the security subject matter expert across product teams. • Provide training and mentoring to engineers on secure design and coding practices. • Partner with compliance, regulatory, and quality teams to align product security strategy with organizational goals How You'll Get There: • 7-10 years total professional experience in software engineering, cybersecurity, or related technical fields. • 3-5 years focused on product or embedded system security, ideally within regulated or safety-critical industries (medical device, aerospace, automotive, or defense). • Demonstrated experience with: • Designing or assessing security architectures for embedded or connected systems. • Implementing secure development lifecycle (SDL) practices within engineering teams. • Leading or participating in vulnerability management and coordinated disclosure processes. • Generating pre-market cybersecurity documentation or equivalent regulatory submissions (e.g., FDA, ISO 14971, IEC 81001-5-1). • Collaborating cross-functionally (engineering, QA, regulatory, IT) to implement and sustain security programs. Preferred • Prior experience as a product security lead or security point of contact for a commercial medical or industrial product. • Experience integrating security testing automation into CI/CD environments. • Experience supporting external audits, penetration tests, or third-party security assessments. Core Product Security Knowledge • Secure system and software design principles (least privilege, defense in depth, threat modeling, zero trust). • Risk management frameworks: NIST 800-53, NIST 800-30, ISO 27001, ISO 14971, and IEC 81001-5-1. • Cryptography fundamentals (key management, TLS, symmetric/asymmetric encryption, hashing). • Authentication and authorization mechanisms, identity management, and secure session handling. • Secure coding standards (e.g., CERT C/C++, OWASP, MISRA, CWE/SANS Top 25). • Supply chain security concepts and SBOM management (SPDX, CycloneDX). DevOps & Infrastructure Knowledge • CI/CD security practices, secrets management, container security (Docker, Podman), and artifact signing. • Common security testing tools: SAST, DAST, SCA, fuzzers, and pen-testing frameworks. • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, or on-prem Linux environments). • Incident response and vulnerability disclosure processes. Regulatory & Documentation Knowledge • FDA cybersecurity premarket and postmarket guidance. • Secure update/patch management strategies (aligned with FDA "updateability & patchability" expectations). • Audit-ready documentation practices and traceability to design controls. Minimum • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field. Preferred • Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering (ideal for regulated product security leadership). #GKOSUS Apply tot his job