Job Description

The Role

The Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer, Secure Product Engineering is a senior individual contributor within the Secure Product Engineering pillar of General Motors’ Product Cybersecurity organization.

This role helps make secure implementation an integrated, repeatable part of how GM builds products. Through close, hands-on partnership with product engineering teams, the Staff Engineer ensures that software and systems are implemented securely as products and features move through the build phase of development. The role supports GM’s broad product portfolio, including embedded vehicle software, vehicle platforms and operating systems, mobile experiences, cloud services, APIs, and other connected software and services.

As a technical leader without direct reports, this engineer earns influence through technical credibility, direct execution, mentorship, and a practical approach to solving difficult security problems. They personally build and mature the tooling, reusable patterns, technical guidance, and secure-engineering workflows that enable product teams to deliver secure software efficiently and consistently.

Secure Product Engineering provides high-touch, integrated support to product teams while improving automated security capabilities that allow engineers to move quickly and confidently. This role works closely with Product Threat Assessment, Secure Product Architecture, Product Security Validation, Offensive Product Security, Product Security Operations Center, Enterprise Application Security, and product engineering teams to ensure security intent is carried from design into implementation and sustained through delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a hands-on technical leader for secure software and systems engineering, driving outcomes through direct execution, trusted partnership, and influence rather than people management.

• Establish embedded working relationships with product engineering teams and act as a technically credible security partner throughout development.

• Design, build, deploy, and mature scalable secure-engineering services and capabilities that help teams identify and remediate security issues early.

• Implement and improve application-security practices across product environments, including static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), software composition analysis, fuzzing, runtime security, secure code review, and operating-system hardening.

• Develop reusable secure coding patterns, reference implementations, guardrails, libraries, automation, and technical standards that make the secure path the easiest path for engineers.

• Perform in-depth code, configuration, architecture, and design reviews to identify material vulnerabilities, implementation gaps, insecure dependencies, and opportunities for preventive controls.

• Translate cybersecurity requirements, threat-model outputs, and secure architecture decisions into clear, actionable implementation guidance for engineering teams.

• Build or extend security tooling, integrations, dashboards, and workflows that improve developer experience, improve visibility into security risk, and enable consistent evidence of security execution.

• Partner with Enterprise Application Security and adjacent teams to align toolchains, reduce duplication, and extend enterprise capabilities where product-specific needs require additional depth.

• Work with Product Threat Assessment and Secure Product Architecture to ensure changes in product implementation are reflected in threat assumptions, architecture decisions, security requirements, and downstream validation activities.

• Partner with Product Security Validation and Offensive Product Security to address recurring findings, improve remediation quality, and feed lessons learned back into engineering patterns and automated controls.

• Help engineering teams prioritize vulnerabilities and technical debt based on exploitability, product context, customer impact, and practical remediation paths.

• Mentor and uplevel cybersecurity and product engineers through technical pairing, design reviews, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and clear examples of strong secure-engineering practice.

• Define measurable outcomes for secure-engineering improvements, such as security coverage, adoption of reusable patterns, reduction of recurring vulnerability classes, remediation effectiveness, and developer workflow improvements.

• Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, recommendations, and progress clearly to engineering partners and leadership audiences.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, application security, product security, software engineering, or closely related technical roles.

• Demonstrated technical leadership in security or engineering-focused environments, including leading complex initiatives without formal authority, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical direction.

• Deep expertise in application security, secure software engineering, vulnerability management, and secure software development lifecycle practices.

• Hands-on experience with security testing and engineering practices such as SAST, DAST, fuzzing, software composition analysis, secure code review, threat-informed remediation, and security automation.

• Ability to read, write, debug, and review software in multiple programming languages; experience personally building tooling, automation, integrations, or reusable developer capabilities.

• Experience partnering directly with software engineering teams to improve security outcomes without creating unnecessary delivery friction.

• Strong understanding of common application, API, platform, cloud, mobile, operating-system, and embedded-software vulnerability classes and mitigations.

• Ability to translate complex security issues into prioritized, practical, and technically actionable guidance.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical content to engineering teams, product partners, and senior leaders.

• Ability to manage multiple complex priorities while maintaining clear milestones, ownership, and measurable outcomes.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience in automotive, mobility, embedded systems, connected devices, or another complex, safety- or mission-critical regulated environment.

• Familiarity with embedded software, real-time or general-purpose operating systems, vehicle electronic control units, mobile applications, cloud services, backend platforms, and APIs.

• Experience building and operating custom security tooling or extending existing security technologies through APIs, CI/CD integrations, IDE integrations, workflows, or automation.

• Experience securing products across multiple environments, such as embedded systems, mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, backend services, and developer platforms.

• Experience with secure build pipelines, CI/CD security controls, dependency management, artifact integrity, code-signing, secrets management, and infrastructure-as-code security.

• Familiarity with product cybersecurity standards and practices, including ISO/SAE 21434, secure development lifecycle controls, vulnerability disclosure, and risk-based security decision-making.

• Published cybersecurity research, technical presentations, open-source contributions, code repositories, or other demonstrated contributions to the security community.

• Relevant industry certifications, such as CSSLP, OSCP, GWAPT, GWEB, GCPN, CISSP, or comparable technical certifications.

What You’ll Bring

• A high-ownership, hands-on style and the judgment to distinguish material product risk from lower-value security noise.

• Strong product instincts and a pragmatic security mindset that improves protection while enabling product teams to deliver.

• Technical depth that enables you to provide clear guidance, challenge assumptions constructively, and establish a high bar for engineering quality.

• A collaborative approach that builds trust with engineers and turns security requirements into useful implementation support.

• A bias toward scalable, durable improvements rather than one-time interventions or manual workarounds.

• Curiosity, persistence, and comfort operating in ambiguous technical environments where the problem and solution may need to be defined together.

• The ability to connect detailed technical work to customer trust, product resilience, quality, safety, and business outcomes.

• A commitment to mentoring others and raising secure-engineering capability across the Product Cybersecurity organization.

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