Senior Engineer, ARM Platform Security - RICOCHET - Central Technology

DEMONWARE (CANADA) , INC.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Activision is seeking a Senior Engineer to port and enhance security features for the Ricochet anti-cheat on Windows on ARM. You will contribute to protecting the integrity of Call of Duty across PC platforms and collaborate with multiple studios to ensure high-performance, robust security implementations.

The role emphasizes deep systems-level work, debugging, and optimization, with opportunities to influence future security technologies in a globally distributed engineering organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Windows Platform on ARM.
• Proven experience working on large-scale complex systems.
• Experience with C++ codebases and refactoring.
• Experience working in an engineering organization with a focus on CI/CD, scalability, and automation.
• Expertise in debugging, optimization and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and Evolve: Design and implement advanced anti-cheat technologies to stay ahead of emerging threats.
• Strengthen Core Systems: Analyze, update, and enhance existing protection frameworks to maintain top-tier security.
• Detect and Defend: Investigate, develop, and deploy cheat detection mechanisms that keep gameplay fair and fun.
• Collaborate Across Studios: Work closely with engineers across multiple teams to ensure seamless integration and performance.

Skills

Debugging

Performance tuning

CI/CD

Scalability

Automation

Problem solving

Tools

Windows Internals

Windows Security

C++

Build toolchains

Reverse engineering

Job description

Senior Engineer, ARM Platform Security - RICOCHET - Central Technology

Requisition ID: R028288

Your Mission

Call of Duty is one of the most iconic and successful video game franchises in the world, delivering unforgettable experiences to millions of players. At the heart of that experience is fair play-and that's where the Ricochet team comes in. We're on a mission to detect and eliminate cheaters swiftly, ensuring every player enjoys a level playing field.

In this role as a Senior Engineer, your experience working with Windows on the Arm Platform will be critical as you help port some of our key security features to Windows on Arm. Your work will directly protect the integrity of one of the most beloved franchises in gaming as we bring it to more PC platforms.

What you bring to the table

The Game Security team's priorities can change quickly based on the threat landscape. The following areas of ownership will act as a baseline. Therefore, this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Innovate and Evolve: Design and implement advanced anti-cheat technologies to stay ahead of emerging threats.
• Strengthen Core Systems: Analyze, update, and enhance existing protection frameworks to maintain top-tier security.
• Detect and Defend: Investigate, develop, and deploy cheat detection mechanisms that keep gameplay fair and fun.
• Collaborate Across Studios: Work closely with engineers across multiple teams to ensure seamless integration and performance.

Why This Role Matters

Your contributions will help millions of players experience Call of Duty as it's meant to be played - competitive, fair, and thrilling. You'll tackle complex technical challenges, influence the future of anti-cheat technology, and make a real impact on one of the world's largest gaming communities.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements

• Experience

Experience

• 8+ years of relevant professional software development experience
• 5+ years of experience with Windows Platform on ARM
• Proven experience working on large-scale complex systems
• Experience with C++ codebases and refactoring
• Experience working in an engineering organization with a focus on CI/CD, scalability, and automation
• Expertise in debugging, optimization and performance tuning

Knowledge & Skills

• Advanced knowledge of algorithms and data structures

Key Attributes

• Strong passion for delivering high-quality products
• Curiosity and drive to understand how systems work under the hood, break them down, analyze their behavior, and improve them
• Passion for low-level systems work, including comfort reading and debugging compiled code at the assembly level
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal

Extra Points

Experience

• Experience with Windows Internals Experience with Windows Security
• Experience working on the internals of a multi-player game engine
• Experience in reverse engineering software analysis

Knowledge & Skills

• Background in Mathematics and/or cryptography
• Deep understanding of C++ compilation, linking, and toolchains, including diagnosing compiler and linker failures and optimizing build performance
• Deep understanding or hands-on experience in the anti-cheat domain

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/ .

Our World

At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We're driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Guitar Hero. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our "press start" is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences.

We're not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we're forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the wor