Reverse Engineer

Reverse Engineer

The EA Security team protects EA 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 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 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.

Lastly, you'll need to determine risk posed by the gameplay integrity issues you discover and communicate your findings across teams to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Reverse engineer unobfuscated user-mode cheats developed for PC, mobile, and consoles

• Document and report on the functionality of the cheats you've analysed

• 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 and advise EA game teams on how to mitigate specific cheats

• Identify cheat variants that defeat previous mitigations, and suggest solutions

  
  

Qualifications

• Knowledge of operating system fundamentals (processes, threads, virtual memory)

• Read and understand x86/x64 assembly language

• Experience with a debugger such as WinDbg, x64dbg, OllyDbg, or gdb

• Experience with a disassembler such as Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, or radare2

• Read and understand one or more of C++, C#, Java, or .NET CIL

  
  

  
  

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Security

• Information Security certifications such as CEH, CISSP, GSEC, OSCP, OSCE, or Security+