Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer - Offensive Product Security
About The Position
The Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer, Offensive Product Security role sits within the broader Product Cybersecurity organization at General Motors and focuses on offensive security services that help strengthen confidence in the security of our product portfolio. Through penetration testing, red-team activity, and security research, this engineer helps identify meaningful weaknesses in software, systems, and product implementations across embedded vehicle software, mobile experiences, and product-backed software and services. This role works closely with product teams to assess real-world attack paths, validate risk, and provide actionable findings that help find areas to mature in our secure SDLC.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in penetration testing, product security, security research, or similar roles
- Deep expertise in offensive security testing across applications, software, and systems
- Experience with penetration testing, red-team activity, vulnerability research, and exploit validation
- Familiarity with embedded security, operating system security, application security, and networking
- Able to read-and-write software in a variety of languages to support investigation and tooling
- Strong ability to communicate technical findings and work directly with engineers on remediation
Nice To Haves
- Prior role(s) in the automotive industry or a similarly complex, deadline driven, and regulated field
- Direct experience working on automotive security in any relevant role across the secure SDLC
- Published cybersecurity research projects (e.g. conference talks, blog posts, code repositories)
- Experience building custom offensive tooling or extending existing security testing capabilities
Responsibilities
- Perform penetration testing across software, systems, and product environments
- Conduct security research that targets meaningful product and technology risks
- Execute offensive assessments across embedded, mobile, and backend environments
- Identify vulnerabilities, validate impact, and provide clear remediation guidance
- Partner with engineering teams to improve security through practical technical findings
- Help strengthen offensive methods, tooling, and testing approaches across the portfolio
Benefits
- This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
