Senior Reverse Engineer - Anti Cheat

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.

The EA Security team protects the company by reducing exposure to security risks and providing risk management controls. As a member of the Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team, your primary job will be to analyse cheats developed against EA's games and make it harder for cheat developers to create new cheats.

Responsibilities

• Reverse engineer obfuscated user-mode and kernel-mode cheats developed for PC, mobile, and consoles
• Document and report on the functionality of analysed cheats
• Solve technical problems in the cheating space
• Create anti-cheat assessment scoping documents and define cheating test cases
• 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
• Identify cheat variants that defeat previous mitigations and suggest solutions

Qualifications

• Knowledge of ARM architecture
• Knowledge of operating system internals for Windows, Android & Linux
• Understanding of operating system fundamentals
• Ability to read x86/x64 assembly language
• Experience with debuggers and disassemblers
• Understanding of C++, C#, Java, or .NET CIL
• Knowledge of cryptography and obfuscation techniques

Additional Qualifications

• 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