Staff Product Security Engineer
Summary
Staff Product Security Engineer responsible for defining and driving cybersecurity strategy across a product portfolio. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with team guidance to embed secure-by-design principles from concept through post-market.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support a Product Security team across multiple products within the business unit
- Reduce cybersecurity risk and enhance product resilience across the portfolio
- Promote a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Embed secure-by-design practices including threat modelling and proactive vulnerability management
- Collaborate with R&D, Quality, Regulatory, IT, and engineering teams across the full lifecycle
- Translate enterprise cybersecurity strategy into executable product-level plans
- Track, measure, and report security posture and risk trends
- Guide engineering teams on interpreting security requirements and implementing controls
- Define and deploy software security controls including encryption, authentication, logging, hardening, and patching
- Conduct product security risk assessments and hazard analyses
- Provide remediation guidance for vulnerabilities during development and post-market
- Support product security documentation using SAP, DocuSign, and SharePoint
- Coordinate document reviews and approvals in line with quality requirements
- Facilitate technical design reviews and code inspections with actionable feedback
- Support incident response activities and vulnerability management planning
- Collaborate with penetration testing, systems, hardware, quality, and technical service teams
- Ensure compliance with BD development policies and software quality procedures
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in IT security architecture and secure software development
- Experience leading and managing technical teams
- Strong knowledge of encryption algorithms and PKI solutions
- Understanding of embedded system security challenges and mitigations
- Experience with static and dynamic code analysis tools
- Strong knowledge of networking, security architectures, and threat vectors
- Experience working within regulated environments and quality management systems
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong work ethic with consistent delivery against objectives
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including options for family members
- Competitive pension scheme with employer contribution
- Performance-related incentive bonus
- Opportunity to participate in a company share investment or savings programme
- Life assurance cover
- Generous annual leave entitlement plus public holidays
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