Product Security Engineer

About the role

Primary Talent Partners has a 12 month contract opening for a Product Security Engineer to join a multinational medical device company for an onsite position operating out of Minneapolis, MN.

Responsibilities

• Lead product cybersecurity operations across the product lifecycle, including incident response, continuous surveillance, vulnerability management, risk assessment, and security monitoring.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Product Management, PSO, Global-IT, and Operations to identify, prioritize, and mitigate cybersecurity risks.
• Lead incident triage, investigation, containment, remediation, recovery, and root-cause analysis for product cybersecurity incidents; coordinate cross-functional response teams, escalation, documentation, and regulatory/customer notification assessments.
• Monitor emerging threats, vulnerabilities, exploits, security advisories, and threat intelligence relevant to the product portfolio; assess emerging threats and proactively identify potential product exposure and required security actions.
• Lead end-to-end vulnerability management, from identification and risk assessment through remediation, mitigation, and closure; prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, exposure, product impact, and business/regulatory risk.
• Conduct cybersecurity risk and impact assessments across the product lifecycle, including threats, vulnerabilities, attack paths, and security controls; translate technical findings into product, patient/customer, business, and regulatory risk and recommend appropriate mitigation or risk acceptance.
• Integrate product cybersecurity signals, telemetry, threat intelligence, and vulnerability data into security monitoring; define monitoring requirements, detection use cases, alerting, escalation criteria, and opportunities for automated threat detection.
• Provide timely executive communication on significant incidents, emerging vulnerabilities, cybersecurity risk, and remediation status; translate complex technical issues into concise risk assessments, recommendations, decisions, and business impact for senior leadership.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Software/Firmware, Quality, Regulatory, Product Management, Operations, and IT teams; drive cybersecurity alignment across product development, deployment, monitoring, post-market surveillance, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and mature cybersecurity processes, tools, automation, metrics, and operating models to improve security posture and response effectiveness; establish KPIs/KRIs, dashboards, lessons-learned processes, and continuous improvement initiatives across product cybersecurity operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, with significant cybersecurity experience.
• 3+ years experience in product cybersecurity, incident response, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, security operations, and cybersecurity risk management.

Skills

• Vulnerability Management
• Security signal Analytics with automation/AI
• Impact/Risk Analysis and report generation

Pay

$55.00/hr - $65.00/hr