Staff Cybersecurity Engineer

Job Title: Staff Cybersecurity Engineer Job Location: Abbott Park, Illinois, United States Job Location Type: Remote Job Contract Type: Full-time Job Seniority Level: 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, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. We re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You ll also have access to: • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year • An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor s degree. • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. THE OPPORTUNITY This Staff Cybersecurity Engineer position can work out remotely within the U.S. The Staff Cybersecurity Engineer leads strategic cybersecurity initiatives that identify, prioritize, and resolve product security risks, vulnerabilities, and threats. This role drives mitigation and remediation strategies across complex, cross-functional product environments to ensure Abbott builds safe and secure products that comply with industry cybersecurity regulations and meet customer and patient security expectations. What You ll Work On • Drive strategic AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows through custom models, skills, and agentic development to reduce vulnerability risk, mature repeatable processes, and scale security decision support. • Lead product cybersecurity release readiness by delivering SBOMs, vulnerability remediation evidence, and release security documentation. Drive technical reviews with development teams to resolve vulnerabilities, validate controls, manage remediation progress, and communicate residual risk. • Lead vulnerability remediation and patch prioritization based on business impact, proof of exploit, regulatory expectations, and policy requirements, partnering with engineering, PMs, and product owners to drive timely risk reduction. • Architect systematic remediation strategies and preventive controls that reduce recurring vulnerabilities, including secure coding practices, dependency management, configuration hardening, and scalable governance across product and supporting applications. • Lead complex and ambiguous security problems to resolution by decomposing risk, aligning stakeholders on technical direction, removing blockers, and driving durable outcomes across large product and platform efforts. • Validate security fixes through hands-on testing, with depth in one or more product security domains such as web application testing using Burp Suite and Postman, hardware testing, or verification of iOS and Android mobile application vulnerability remediation. • Clearly communicate complex technical security concepts to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, translating vulnerability findings, security controls, and security metrics into business-relevant risk insights and decision support. • Lead remediation efforts after security assessments identify weaknesses requiring attention. Drive advancement of the cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, monitoring, and resolution of cybersecurity threats, events, and vulnerabilities. • Leverage JIRA for security project and vulnerability management, building dashboards, reports, and automation workflows that improve remediation visibility, surface strategic metrics, and drive accountability across cross-functional teams. • Lead triage of findings from application, network-based, and agent-based security scanning tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, infrastructure scanners) to determine true security impact, validate exploitability, distinguish false positives, and communicate residual risk and remediation activities to technical and non-technical audiences. • Drive cross-functional execution of security goals and detailed implementat...