Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer - Secure Product Engineering

General Motors•Milford, MI

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer, Secure Product Engineering is a senior individual contributor within the Secure Product Engineering pillar of the broader Product Cybersecurity organization at General Motors. Through close, hands-on partnership with product engineering teams, this engineer helps ensure that software and systems are implemented securely as products move through the build phase of development. As a technical leader without direct reports, this role personally builds the tooling, patterns, and secure-engineering capabilities—and provides the technical guidance and workflows—that allow secure software and systems engineering to scale across GM's product portfolio, spanning embedded vehicle software, mobile experiences, and other key software & services. This is a deep-expertise, execution-focused role. Influence is earned through technical credibility, mentorship, and leading by example rather than through people management.

Requirements

8+ years of cybersecurity experience with roles in application security, product security, or similar
Demonstrated technical leadership and influence in relevant security or engineering-focused roles—leading initiatives without formal authority, mentoring engineers, and setting technical direction
Expertise with application security, secure software engineering, and practical technical guidance
Experience with SAST, DAST, fuzzing, code review, and secure SDLC workflows across platforms
Able to read and write software in multiple programming languages to personally build tooling and support the team's execution
Works closely with engineering teams to materially improve security without unnecessary friction

Nice To Haves

Prior role(s) in the automotive industry or a similarly complex, deadline-driven, and regulated field
Published cybersecurity research projects (e.g. conference talks, blog posts, code repositories)
Familiarity with embedded software/OS security, mobile applications, and backend development
Have previously built custom security tooling and/or extended functionality in related technologies

Responsibilities

Serve as a hands-on technical leader across secure software and systems engineering, driving outcomes through direct execution and influence rather than direct reports
Personally design, build, and mature a robust set of secure engineering services and capabilities for GM products
Establish close, embedded partnerships with product engineering teams to support and directly contribute to secure implementation
Implement and mature SAST, DAST, fuzzing, runtime security, and OS security hardening of core code bases
Author technical guidance, reusable patterns, and guardrails, and roll them out across product environments
Perform in-depth secure code review and partner with adjacent teams to improve tooling and carry security requirements into engineering
Mentor and uplevel engineers across the pillar, setting a high technical bar through example and pairing