Implement J&J’s enterprise Product Security strategy and framework throughout the Heart Recovery portfolio of medical devices and supporting platforms.
Provide technical expertise and strategic leadership in securing Impella heart pump technologies, next-generation cardiac support systems, and connected medical devices.
Deliver security architecture, cryptographic controls, embedded system protections/controls, and threat mitigation techniques to ensure robust, regulatory-compliant security across the product lifecycle.
Support heart recovery throughout a new product’s development phases.
Review product security requirements and recommend security design solutions.
Complete Quality documentation, threat modelling, coordinate third-party penetration testing, software architecture review and design recommendations, code analysis and other security testing work as needed.
Monitor for new vulnerabilities, assist with patching and remediation plans, as well as respond to customer security questionnaires and review security language within contractual agreements as needed.
Drive alignment to J&J Product Security’s overarching framework.
Support the Product Security strategy and objectives within Heart Recovery.
Define and implement secure boot, firmware integrity validation, and anti-tamper mechanisms to protect Heart Recovery Device firmware against unauthorized modification.
Define and Enforce cryptographic protocols for data-at-rest and data-in-transit, ensuring compliance with FDA cybersecurity requirements, NIST 800-175, FIPS 140-3, and IEC 62443.
Define and implement key management infrastructure (PKI, HSMs, TPMs, and secure enclave integration) for device identity, authentication, and software signing.
Develop real-time vulnerability assessment techniques for detecting security flaws in wireless communications (Bluetooth LE, NFC, Wi-Fi, 5G, proprietary RF) used in Heart Recovery’s medical devices.
Implement Zero Trust security for device-to-cloud connectivity, integrating mTLS and continuous authentication models into clinical applications.
Oversee secure OTA (over-the-air) update mechanisms, ensuring firmware rollbacks, code signing, and supply chain integrity validation.
Lead and ensure Secure Development Lifecycle practices are followed, integrating threat modeling, static/dynamic analysis, fuzz testing, and formal verification into the development process.
Define and Influence R&D Engineering to define hardware security architecture, including trust zones, hardware root of trust (HRoT), and secure microcontroller protections.
Implement memory safety strategies to mitigate buffer overflows, side-channel attacks, and execution vulnerabilities in real-time operating systems (RTOS) and bare-metal firmware.
Respond to customer cybersecurity questionnaires and contractual language for post-market medical devices under your responsibility as necessary.

Requirements

10+ years industry experience in Information Security
5+ years experience with embedded system, IOT, or medical device cybersecurity
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Expertise generating Threat models without the use of threat modeling tools.
Expertise performing risk assessments utilizing CVSS 3.1 or higher, with STRIDE per element.
Experience writing technical security requirements for embedded systems and web platforms based on the latest regulations.
Coordination and execution of third-party penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, CVSS and/or other general security testing principles.
Experience supporting regulatory security submissions and generating Cybersecurity QMS documentation, ensuring compliance with FDA Cybersecurity Guidance (2025), EU MDR, NIST 800-53, IMDRF, and AAMI TIR57.
Experience with real-time operating system hardening and pruning techniques and generating detailed SBOMs with software composition analysis.
Experience with cloud security and controls and securely connecting embedded medical devices to the cloud.
Experience generating detailed SBOMs from Software source code and Binaries, Firmware, and Operating Systems.
Experience generating pre-market risk assessments against the threat model leveraging STRIDE and post-market risk assessments via SCA SBOM scans.
Experience generating the security architecture views for medical devices that could include: Global System View, Multi-Patient Harm View, Updateability/Patchability view and, detailing system boundaries, data flows, and external interactions to show risk mitigation, ensuring transparency, and supporting post-market management.
Experience translating technical security requirements into solutions.
Ability to provide secure coding recommendations and experience executing code reviews.
Data privacy experience, including HIPAA and GDPR.
Understanding of industry standards and certifications such as HITRUST & ISO 27001, and IEC 81001-5-1.
Ability to work autonomously and proactively seek out product security opportunities within heart recovery.
Ability to lead large projects and proven ability to track to project plan timelines from a security perspective.
Ability to create and deliver cybersecurity awareness campaigns and other communications.
Creative problem-solving skills.
Customer focus (internal & external).
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to network, interface and influence at all levels of the organization, cross sector, cross-functionally and globally.
Strong leadership skills.

Benefits

medical
dental
vision
life insurance
short- and long-term disability
business accident insurance
group legal insurance
consolidated retirement plan (pension)
savings plan (401(k))
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
Caregiver Leave – 10 days
Volunteer Leave – 4 days
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

embedded system cybersecurityIOT securitymedical device cybersecuritythreat modelingrisk assessmentsCVSS 3.1vulnerability scanningsecure codingreal-time operating system hardeningcloud security

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer focuscollaborationautonomyproactive approachproject managementinfluencecreativity

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeHITRUSTISO 27001IEC 81001-5-1