Senior Application Security Engineer

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time actionable insights to physicians providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients at the right time.

Senior Application Security Engineer

Tempus is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer with deep expertise in penetration testing to join our Application Security team. In this role you will lead efforts to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in our web mobile and medical device applications helping to safeguard sensitive healthcare data and support our mission to improve patient outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct penetration tests on web mobile and software medical device applications as well as internal systems.

• Lead threat modeling and risk assessment activities for new and existing products.

• Develop and execute test plans scenarios scripts or procedures.

• Document findings prepare detailed reports and work with development teams to remediate identified issues.

• Track and manage vulnerabilities through their lifecycle.

• Develop and maintain custom security testing tools and automation scripts.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest testing and ethical hacking methods tools and industry trends.

• Assist in the development and maintenance of application security policies standards and guidelines.

• Work with security and IT teams to enhance the overall security posture of the organization.

• Provide security training and awareness to development teams.

• Participate in the design and review of new technologies and major changes to existing technologies from a security perspective.

• Ensure compliance with healthcare and data privacy regulations (e.g. HIPAA GDPR).

• Evaluate third-party applications and vendors for security risks.

• Mentor junior team members and contribute to a culture of security.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of proven experience in penetration testing with a strong preference for experience in healthcare or other highly regulated environments.

• Strong understanding of security principles techniques and technologies.

• Experience with a variety of security tools and products (e.g. Burp Suite Snyk Metasploit Nmap).

• Familiarity with programming/scripting languages such as Python JavaScript/TypeScript or others.

• Experience with cloud security (AWS Azure GCP) and secure SDLC practices.

• Excellent problem-solving analytical communication and interpersonal skills.

• Relevant certifications such as OSCP GPEN OSCE GWAPT CSSLP or similar are highly desirable.

• Experience mentoring and training others in security best practices.

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California Colorado New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits which may include incentive compensation restricted stock units medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. 

What We Do

We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time connect patients with therapies and clinical trials and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology neurology psychiatry cardiology and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information visit tempus.com.

Why Work With Us

We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.

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