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The Senior Reverse Engineer will analyze obfuscated user-mode and kernel-mode cheats to prevent tampering and ensure fair gaming experiences. They will also develop automation tools and provide technical guidance to game teams to mitigate security risks.
Senior Reverse Engineer
You will perform anti-cheat assessments. These assessments will cover everything from client-side tampering (external/internal) to network-based cheating. You will also include source code review of thick clients. The goal is to gauge against cheat/hack tools.
The EA Security team protects us by reducing our exposure to security risks. We raise risk awareness for the entire company and provide measured, proportionate security and risk management controls, services and solutions.
The Senior Reverse Engineer I is a member of EA Security's Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team and will report to the manager of the Gameplay Integrity Operations sub-team.
As a Senior Reverse Engineer I, 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.
You will perform anti-cheat assessments. These assessments will cover everything from client-side tampering (external/internal) to network-based cheating. You will also include source code review of thick clients. The goal is to gauge against cheat/hack tools.
Responsibilities
Reverse Engineer obfuscated user-mode and kernal-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 us and advise 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 chanhge 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
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