Anti-Cheat Engineer
Locations: Offsite - UK, United Kingdom
- Location: Austin
- State: Texas
- Country: United States of America
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Location: Austin (Hybrid and Possibly Remote options available across North America)
Reports to: Sr. Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering
Job Summary
Join us at Electronic Arts (EA) and help inspire the world to play. As part of our SPEAR Anti-Cheat Engineering team, you will strengthen game security and integrity for millions of players. You will report to the Sr. Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering and work with us to deliver EA Javelin Anticheat, expanding support for Windows on ARM and other platforms. We promote creativity, inclusion, and continuous learning in a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- You will implement features to load different versions of EA Javelin Anticheat based on user hardware.
- You will improve automated build and test pipelines to validate EA Javelin Anticheat on ARM devices.
- You will remediate security findings and implement bug fixes in EA Javelin Anticheat.
- You will develop features supporting EA Javelin Anticheat operation on non-Windows devices, including Proton and Linux.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience with C++ or other low-level programming languages.
- 2+ years of experience with Windows internals and processor intrinsics.
- 1+ years of experience with Clang and LLVM toolchains.
- Experience shipping Windows drivers on x86_64 and ARM64 platforms.
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