Senior Product Cybersecurity Engineer, Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Senior Product Cybersecurity Engineer to lead triage and remediation of vulnerabilities across GM’s vehicle, mobile, API and backend software. You will investigate reports, assess risk, and guide engineering teams on timely fixes and verifications.

The role emphasizes collaboration with PSIRT, PSOC, and legal teams, and requires hands‑on vulnerability analysis, strong communication, and experience with CVEs/CVSS. This hybrid position supports relocation benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of direct experience in product security, security engineering, and/or incident response.
• Hands-on experience analyzing software, firmware, or system vulnerabilities and exploitability.
• Familiarity with common vulnerability classes, CVEs/CVSS, and coordinated disclosure practices.
• Able to read and write software in multiple languages for analysis and remediation guidance.
• Experience working with engineering and product teams to drive timely, effective remediation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and triage product security reports across vehicle, mobile, API, and backend software
• Analyze exploitability, customer impact, and risk, and recommend severity and treatment
• Partner with product and engineering teams on remediation plans, timelines, and validation
• Validate fixes and mitigations to ensure vulnerabilities are resolved with sufficient quality
• Contribute to PSIRT processes, playbooks, and tooling to improve consistency and response speed
• Work as part of PSOC and closely with SOC, bug bounty, disclosure, and legal on product incidents

Skills

6+ years experience

Vulnerability analysis

CVEs/CVSS familiarity

Multilingual code reading

Cross‑functional collaboration

Strong communication

Job description

The Role The Senior Product Cybersecurity Engineer, Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) role sits within the broader Product Cybersecurity organization at General Motors and focuses on responding to and managing product security vulnerabilities across GM’s portfolio. Through rigorous investigation, technical risk analysis, and close collaboration with engineering and cross‑functional partners, this engineer helps ensure that product security issues are triaged, remediated, and learned from in a consistent and defensible way.

What You'll Do

• Investigate and triage product security reports across vehicle, mobile, API, and backend software
• Analyze exploitability, customer impact, and risk, and recommend severity and treatment
• Partner with product and engineering teams on remediation plans, timelines, and validation
• Validate fixes and mitigations to ensure vulnerabilities are resolved with sufficient quality
• Contribute to PSIRT processes, playbooks, and tooling to improve consistency and response speed
• Work as part of PSOC and closely with SOC, bug bounty, disclosure, and legal on product incidents

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 6+ years of direct experience in product security, security engineering, and/or incident response
• Hands‑on experience analyzing software, firmware, or system vulnerabilities and exploitability
• Familiarity with common vulnerability classes, CVEs/CVSS, and coordinated disclosure practices
• Able to read and write software in multiple languages for analysis and remediation guidance
• Experience working with engineering and product teams to drive timely, effective remediation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non‑technical audiences

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with automotive, embedded, or connected product environments
• Prior experience in a PSIRT, PSOC, or similar product‑focused security response function
• Experience building or using tools and dashboards for vulnerability intake, tracking, and reporting
• Experience contributing to internal / external security advisories and customer communications

What You'll Bring

• A calm, structured approach to handling security issues under time pressure
• Strong judgment on risk, prioritization, and what is materially important to fix
• A collaborative style that builds trust with engineers and cross‑functional partners
• A bias toward clear action, closure, and learning from each incident or vulnerability
• A focus on improving PSIRT processes and tooling so security response gets better over time

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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