Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer - Offensive Product Security
General MotorsAbout the role
Job Description
The Role
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.
What You'll Do
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
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
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
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
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
What You'll Bring
Deep technical curiosity and strong offensive security instincts across complex product focuses
A rigorous and detail-oriented approach to technical investigation and exploit validation
Clear judgment on risk, exploitability, and practical impact across software and systems
The ability to work independently on complex technical problems and ambiguous attack surfaces
A commitment to helping engineers improve security through detailed, risk-ranked findings
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