Senior Security Software Engineer, Advanced Security
General Motors1 day ago
Warren, MI, USA or Austin, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production Python cloud services with containerized workloads, event-driven processing, data storage, and infrastructure as code.
- Integrate security findings and context from security tools, source control, and cloud APIs.
- Build AI agents that triage findings, gather evidence, and propose fixes.
- Develop sandboxed environments for authorized AI-enabled security testing and apply defense-in-depth controls.
- Implement agent isolation, least-privilege identities, network egress controls, secrets management, safe handling of untrusted input, and prompt-injection defenses.
- Evaluate model accuracy, cost, latency, and regressions to guide technical decisions.
- Collaborate with application security, penetration testing, and cloud security engineers; communicate risks, review code, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, or security engineering.
- Strong production Python experience.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD on a major cloud platform.
- Working knowledge of application security, vulnerability classes, security scanners, and false positives.
- Experience building secure systems using least privilege, secrets management, isolation, and safe handling of untrusted input.
- Ability to own work across teams, make decisions with limited information, and explain technical risk to non-specialists.
- Experience using agentic large language model tools and solutions.
- Preferred: experience with LLM applications and agent frameworks, containers and Kubernetes, sandboxing, Semgrep or CodeQL, vulnerability research, penetration testing, exploit development, and AI security risks and controls.
- Preferred: public examples of shipped work such as open-source contributions, published tools, or technical write-ups.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring the selected candidate to report to a specific location at least three times per week or at a frequency set by the manager.
- Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.
- GM provides benefits and rewards resources intended to support employee well-being at work and at home.
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About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.