Base Salary
$100k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and validate cybersecurity controls for cloud applications, software products, and connected medical devices.
- Lead complex cybersecurity initiatives, technical security reviews, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing coordination, and remediation strategies.
- Use manual and automated testing to identify code flaws, misconfigurations, insecure software, and emerging vulnerabilities.
- Create release security artifacts including SBOMs, threat models, vulnerability remediation evidence, and security documentation.
- Apply secure coding, dependency management, configuration hardening, authentication, certificate management, digital signatures, incident response, and disaster recovery practices.
- Assess cloud systems and medical devices for security risks and support compliance with ISO, FDA, and other regulatory requirements.
- Use AI-assisted tools, agents, automations, and MCP servers to improve vulnerability triage, CVE and SBOM analysis, evidence collection, dashboarding, documentation, and remediation tracking.
- Communicate cybersecurity risks, requirements, findings, and solutions to engineering teams, customers, prospects, leadership, and other stakeholders.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree and seven years of relevant experience are required.
- At least five years of cybersecurity, product security, IT security, or related experience is preferred, with seven or more years preferred and hands-on product-security engineering experience favored.
- Hands-on experience with web, mobile, and cloud infrastructure security testing using DAST, SAST, SCA, SBOM-generation, network-based, and agent-based vulnerability-scanning tools is preferred.
- A relevant certification such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, or CEH, or equivalent, is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher, prior product-development cybersecurity experience, and familiarity with diagnostic equipment or medical devices are preferred.
- Experience applying AI tools, AI agents, Skills and Automations, and MCP servers to cybersecurity workflows is preferred.
- Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST cybersecurity frameworks, and audit and certification processes is preferred.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, independent judgment, documentation, communication, collaboration, and peer-review skills are required.
Benefits
- The role is onsite daily in San Diego, California.
- Eligible employees can qualify for free medical coverage through the Health Investment Plan PPO in the next calendar year.
- Benefits include an employer-contributing retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and the FreeU bachelor’s degree education benefit.
- Abbott offers career development and international growth opportunities.
- Abbott provides health and wellness benefits and is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity.
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers, on Instagram @AbbottGlobal, and on X @AbbottNews. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. Terms of Use: https://www.abbott.com/social-media-terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://abbo.tt/privacy