Sr Eng, CyberSecurity

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Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer(Cybersecurity) with strong expertise in Application Security and exposure to AI‑assisted tools and techniques to design, secure, and enhance innovative healthcare technology solutions within our Front Line Care product portfolio. This role focuses on embedding security into scalable, high‑quality software and device solutions that directly impact patient care and clinical outcomes. The ideal candidate is technically strong, passionate about secure product development, and motivated by contributing to life‑saving healthcare technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with software development teams to promote a security‑by‑design mindset by defining secure implementations and coding practices aligned with the Application Security Program.

• Design and implement secure coding solutions, patterns, and guidelines for embedded and cloud environments, ensuring compliance with security and privacy requirements defined in security plans, risk assessments, policies, and procedures.

• Support security project governance activities, including planning, scheduling, prioritization, and tracking of security initiatives.

• Proactively drive security solution implementations in collaboration with development leads, security architects, and product owners.

• Lead feature implementations aligned with system architecture through design, coding, reviews, and testing; perform Proof of Concept (POC) activities as needed.

• Review, analyze, and mitigate findings from SAST, DAST, SCA, and penetration testing in collaboration with development teams across electromechanical medical device product lifecycles.

• Assess existing software security controls and implement security enhancements across multiple medical devices and platforms.

• Participate in post‑market product analysis to support vulnerability investigations and contribute to continuous security monitoring efforts.

• Leverage AI‑assisted techniques to secure the system.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity design and development; experience with embedded systems is preferred.

• Hands‑on experience with Java, C++, C#, Linux, and secure software design within complex systems.

• Proven experience analyzing, interpreting, and remediating security findings from SAST, DAST, SCA, and penetration testing tools.

• Experience with embedded data‑at‑rest security implementations, including Code Signing, Secure Boot, and flash encryption.

• Experience in designing and implementing secure wired and wireless networking solutions for embedded/IoT systems across multiple OSI layers.

• Hands‑on experience with IoT and embedded PKI solutions and implementations.

• Demonstrated experience in cybersecurity development for embedded and digital products.

• Strong ability to guide software development teams on secure coding practices and the interpretation of application security testing reports across multiple programming languages and operating environments.

• Solid understanding of secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices, including SAFe and Agile methodologies.

• Strong knowledge of security‑by‑design principles and architecture‑level security concepts.

• Proficient understanding and practical application of security technologies such as cryptographic algorithms and cipher suites, PKI, hardware/embedded authentication protocols, Secure Boot mechanisms, and data‑at‑rest encryption.

• Experience implementing and enforcing OWASP Top 10 application security guidelines.

• Knowledge of embedded system architecture and security controls, including firewall configurations, border routers, wireless communication architectures, and messaging authentication protocols.

• Experience generating, reviewing, and validating penetration test results using standard methodologies and tools, including threat modeling, security analysis, and system security audits.

• Up‑to‑date knowledge of current and emerging security threats, attack techniques, and vulnerability exploitation methods.

• Exposure to international privacy regulations and cross‑industry security trends.

• Exposure to AI‑assisted tools and techniques.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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