Senior Reverse Engineer - Anti Cheat

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Reverse Engineer to join the Security team's Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team.

As a Senior Reverse Engineer, your primary job will be to analyse cheats developed against EA's games and to make it harder for cheat developers to create new cheats. Your work will help ensure fair and fun gaming experiences for EA's customers across all of EA's games.

Responsibilities:

• Reverse Engineer obfuscated user-mode and kernel-mode cheats developed for PC, mobile, and consoles
• Document and report on the functionality of the cheats you've analysed
• Solve well-defined technical problems in the cheating space
• Use architecture and design documentation to create anti-cheat assessment scoping documents and define cheating test-cases for upcoming anti-cheat assessments
• Perform anti-cheat assessments of pre-release products
• Consult with EA game teams on how to reduce classes of cheats
• Develop tools, scripts, and extensions for automation and reverse engineering, both in user space and kernel space
• Identify cheat variants that defeat previous mitigations, and suggest solutions

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the ARM architecture
• Knowledge of operating system internals for Windows, Android & Linux
• Knowledge of operating system fundamentals (processes, threads, virtual memory)
• Read x86/x64 assembly language
• Experience with debuggers such as WinDbg, x64dbg, OllyDbg, or gdb
• Experience with disassemblers such as Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, or radare2
• Understand three or more of C++, C#, Java, or .NET CIL
• Knowledge of cryptography and obfuscation techniques
• Drive change throughout all of the Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) organisation

Additional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Security
• Information Security certifications such as CEH, CISSP, GSEC, OSCP, OSCE, and Security+
• Experience building tools that automate cheat-related tasks
• Hands-on experience with reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development

Benefits: Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical insurance, mental wellbeing support, pension plan, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.