General Motors

Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer - Secure Product Engineering

General Motors$120K — $145K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity with roles focusing on application or product security.
  • Proven technical leadership in security or engineering roles, mentoring others and influencing initiatives without formal authority.
  • Deep expertise in application security and secure software engineering with practical guidance skills.
  • Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, fuzzing, and secure SDLC workflows across various platforms.
  • Proficient in multiple programming languages for building tooling and supporting team execution.
  • Ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams to enhance security seamlessly.

Responsibilities

  • Lead secure software and systems engineering efforts by direct execution and influence.
  • Design, build, and enhance secure engineering services and capabilities for GM products.
  • Work closely with product engineering teams to ensure secure implementations.
  • Implement and enhance various security practices like SAST, DAST, and code hardening.
  • Create and distribute technical guidance and reusable patterns for secure development across product teams.
  • Conduct thorough secure code reviews and collaborate to enhance security tooling and requirements integration.
  • Mentor engineers and set high technical standards within the team.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring at least 3 in-office days per week.
  • Potential relocation benefits available for eligible candidates.
  • Opportunity for mentorship and influence within a senior technical role.
  • Engagement in cutting-edge automotive cybersecurity initiatives.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Role

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.

What You'll Do
  • 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


Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

  • 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


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
  • 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


What You'll Bring
  • A high-ownership, hands-on style with strong product instincts and a pragmatic security mindset
  • A commitment to internal customer partnership and technically credible security support
  • Deep technical expertise that enables clear guidance, strong mentorship, and opinionated technical planning
  • The ability to manage multiple complex priorities with clear milestones and measurable outcomes
  • A bias toward scalable improvement that strengthens Secure Product Engineering over time


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GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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