[Hiring] Senior Reverse Engineer @Electronic Arts

Role Description

As a Senior Reverse Engineer I, your primary job will be to analyze 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.

• Perform anti-cheat assessments covering client-side tampering (external/internal) and network-based cheating.
• Include source code review of thick clients to gauge against cheat/hack tools.
• 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 analyzed.
• Solve well-defined technical problems in the cheating space.
• Create anti-cheat assessment scoping documents and define cheating test-cases for upcoming assessments using architecture and design documentation.
• Perform anti-cheat assessments of pre-release products.
• Consult 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).
• Ability to 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.
• Understanding of 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) organization.

Requirements

• 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

• Healthcare coverage.
• Mental well-being support.
• Retirement savings.
• Paid time off.
• Family leaves.
• Complimentary games.
• Holistic approach to benefits programs emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness.