# Senior Reverse Engineer

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Offsite - Poland, Poland
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

As a Senior Reverse Engineer, you will perform anti-cheat assessments covering client-side tampering and network-based cheating. You will also conduct source code reviews of thick clients to gauge against cheat/hack tools. Your primary job will be to analyse cheats developed against EA's games and 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**

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- ARM architecture
- operating system internals
- Windows
- Android
- Linux
- x86/x64 assembly language
- debuggers
- disassemblers
- C++
- C#
- Java
- .NET CIL
- cryptography
- obfuscation techniques

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Security
- Information Security certifications
- Experience building tools that automate cheat-related tasks
- Hands-on experience with reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development

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