Senior Anti-Cheat Reverse Engineer

Electronic Arts; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Reverse Engineer I to join the SPEAR team in Poland. You will analyze cheats across PC, mobile, and consoles, review code, and develop anti-cheat tools and test-cases to harden EA games.

Your work includes reverse engineering, documentation, and collaboration with game teams to reduce cheat variants. Relevant security certifications and strong OS knowledge are required.

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

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

Skills

ARM

OS internals

OS fundamentals

x86/x64 assembly

Debuggers

Disassemblers

C/C++/Java

Crypto/Obfuscation

SPEAR leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or Info Security

Security Certifications (CEH, CISSP, GSEC, OSCP, OSCE, Security+)

Tools

WinDbg

x64dbg

OllyDbg

gdb

Ghidra

IDA Pro

Binary Ninja

radare2

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Reverse Engineer I to join the SPEAR team in Poland. You will analyze cheats across PC, mobile, and consoles, review code, and develop anti-cheat tools and test-cases to harden EA games.

Your work includes reverse engineering, documentation, and collaboration with game teams to reduce cheat variants. Relevant security certifications and strong OS knowledge are required.