Company Description

About Trident:
Trident Consulting is an award-winning IT/engineering staffing company founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Ramon, CA. We specialize in placing high-quality vetted technology

Some of our recent awards include:
2022, 2021, 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America
2022, 2021 SF Business Times 100 fastest-growing private companies in Bay Area

Job Description

Trident Consulting is seeking a " Product Security Engineer” for one of our client in " Burlington, MA (Hybrid)” A global leader in business and technology services.

Please find additional details about the role below:

Job Title: Product Security Engineer

Location: Burlington, MA (Hybrid)

Job Type: Full Time

Salary Range: $118K PA to $146K PA with Benefits

Relocation assistance available (up to $10,000)

What You’ll Do:

The Senior Product Security Engineer, based in Burlington Massachusetts, is a critical, high-level engineering position tasked to leading security efforts across the product lifecycle, ensuring products meet regulatory expectations and industry best practices for cybersecurity. This role provides both hands-on technical expertise and cross-functional leadership, with influence over product strategy, development processes, and post-market security posture.

Security Architecture & Requirements

Define security requirements and risk mitigations for new products and features.
Translate regulatory and industry security standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 27001, NIST, OWASP) into actionable product requirements.
Develop and maintain security architecture diagrams and models for software and integrated systems.

Development Lifecycle Security

Embed secure development practices (threat modeling, secure coding, code review standards) into the software development lifecycle.
Define and support secure CI/CD practices, including secrets management, dependency management, and supply-chain security.
Partner with DevOps/IT to secure cloud infrastructure, build pipelines, and deployment environments.

Testing & Validation

Assist the testing team with security testing efforts for new and on-market products, including penetration testing, fuzzing, and static/dynamic code analysis.
Update and maintain vulnerability management processes, including SBOM creation and maintenance.
Collaborate with QA to integrate automated security testing into regression and release pipelines.
Documentation & Compliance
Generate and maintain pre-market security documentation to support regulatory submissions (e.g., security risk assessments, security architecture views, threat models, FDA cybersecurity guidance compliance).
Maintain records of vulnerability assessments, mitigations, and patch processes.
Support audit and inspection readiness with thorough, traceable documentation

Vulnerability & Incident Management

Manage product vulnerability assessment and mitigation activities, both pre-market and post-market.
Coordinate cross-functional response to newly discovered vulnerabilities, including communication, remediation, and regulatory reporting.
Track and monitor vulnerability disclosures from third-party libraries and components.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Act as the security subject matter expert across product teams.
Provide training and mentoring to engineers on secure design and coding practices.
Partner with compliance, regulatory, and quality teams to align product security strategy with organizational goals

How You’ll Get There:

7–10 years total professional experience in software engineering, cybersecurity, or related technical fields.
3–5 years focused on product or embedded system security, ideally within regulated or safety-critical industries (medical device, aerospace, automotive, or defense).
Demonstrated experience with:
Designing or assessing security architectures for embedded or connected systems.
Implementing secure development lifecycle (SDL) practices within engineering teams.
Leading or participating in vulnerability management and coordinated disclosure processes.
Generating pre-market cybersecurity documentation or equivalent regulatory submissions (e.g., FDA, ISO 14971, IEC 81001-5-1).
Collaborating cross-functionally (engineering, QA, regulatory, IT) to implement and sustain security programs.

Preferred

Prior experience as a product security lead or security point of contact for a commercial medical or industrial product.
Experience integrating security testing automation into CI/CD environments.
Experience supporting external audits, penetration tests, or third-party security assessments.

Core Product Security Knowledge

Secure system and software design principles (least privilege, defense in depth, threat modeling, zero trust).
Risk management frameworks: NIST 800-53, NIST 800-30, ISO 27001, ISO 14971, and IEC 81001-5-1.
Cryptography fundamentals (key management, TLS, symmetric/asymmetric encryption, hashing).
Authentication and authorization mechanisms, identity management, and secure session handling.
Secure coding standards (e.g., CERT C/C++, OWASP, MISRA, CWE/SANS Top 25).
Supply chain security concepts and SBOM management (SPDX, CycloneDX).

DevOps & Infrastructure Knowledge

CI/CD security practices, secrets management, container security (Docker, Podman), and artifact signing.
Common security testing tools: SAST, DAST, SCA, fuzzers, and pen-testing frameworks.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, or on-prem Linux environments).
Incident response and vulnerability disclosure processes.

Regulatory & Documentation Knowledge

FDA cybersecurity premarket and postmarket guidance.
Secure update/patch management strategies (aligned with FDA “updateability & patchability” expectations).
Audit-ready documentation practices and traceability to design controls.

Minimum

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

Preferred

Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering (ideal for regulated product security leadership).

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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