Staff Offensive Product Security Engineer

General Motors; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer (Offensive Product Security) role focuses on offensive security services to strengthen confidence in GM's product portfolio. You will conduct penetration testing across embedded vehicle software, mobile experiences, and product-backed services, working with product teams to validate risk and deliver actionable findings.

This position requires 8+ years of experience in security testing, research, and collaboration with engineers to remediate

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Penetration testing

Product security

Security research

Offensive security testing

Embedded security

OS security

Networking

Programming languages

Communication with engineers

Job description

General Motors Staff Product Cybersecurity Engineer (Offensive Product Security) role focuses on offensive security services to strengthen confidence in GM's product portfolio. You will conduct penetration testing across embedded vehicle software, mobile experiences, and product-backed services, working with product teams to validate risk and deliver actionable findings.

This position requires 8+ years of experience in security testing, research, and collaboration with engineers to remediate