Anti-Cheat Engineer

Electronic Arts

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Austin, TX
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As an Anti-Cheat Engineer at Electronic Arts, you will join the SPEAR team within EA Security to ensure fair play across PC titles by developing and enhancing the EA Javelin Anticheat solution. Your day-to-day responsibilities include implementing features for different hardware configurations, improving build and test pipelines for ARM devices, fixing bugs, and remediating security issues. You should have at least 4 years of experience with C++ or similar low-level languages, along with expertise in Windows internals, Clang, LLVM, and machine code debugging. Bonus points if you have experience with obfuscation, encryption, anti-tamper technologies, and shipping anti-cheat solutions on Linux. This role supports Electronic Arts' mission to maintain game security integrity across emerging markets and platforms.

Skills

C++ Windows Internals Clang LLVM Machine Code Debugging ARM64 x86_64 Linux Proton CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Implement features to support different versions of EA Javelin Anticheat based on user hardware.
  • Improve build and test pipelines for automated validation of EA Javelin Anticheat on ARM hardware.
  • Develop bug fixes and remediate security findings in EA Javelin Anticheat.
  • Create features for EA Javelin Anticheat to operate on non-Windows devices like Proton and Linux.
  • Support the development of Windows on ARM for EA Javelin Anticheat.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience with C++ or other low-level programming languages
  • 2+ years of experience with Windows internals and processor intrinsics
  • Experience in debugging at the machine code level
  • 1+ year of experience with Clang and LLVM
  • Previously shipped Windows drivers on x86\_64 and ARM64
  • Implement features for different versions of EA Javelin Anticheat based on user hardware
  • Support improvements to build and test pipelines for automated validation

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