Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat
Riot Games18 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Drive anti-cheat features from ambiguous concepts through production across user-mode, kernel-mode, and obfuscation tooling surfaces.
- Develop scalable detections, mitigations, countermeasures, and preventative controls against emerging cheating threats.
- Reverse engineer evasive cheats and operating-system manipulation techniques, including packed and obfuscated binaries.
- Investigate and resolve complex compatibility issues in opaque environments.
- Support game teams in understanding cheating ecosystems and integrating Anti-Cheat capabilities.
Requirements
- Proficiency in C/C++ and x86/x64 assembly.
- Experience building and debugging low-level, security-sensitive systems.
- Strong understanding of Windows process and thread lifecycles, virtual memory, handles and objects, security contexts, executable image formats, DLL loading, and the Windows loader.
- Hands-on reverse engineering experience with packed, protected, or obfuscated binaries and runtime concealment or manipulation techniques.
- Practical experience developing, debugging, and maintaining production-grade Windows kernel-mode drivers.
- Preferred: experience in cheat-development or game-security research communities and knowledge of modern cheat techniques and anti-cheat evasions.
- Preferred: familiarity with hypervisors, DKOM, EPT manipulation, vulnerable drivers, hardware-assisted cheats, runtime integrity verification, behavioral detection, and client attestation.
Benefits
- Open paid time off and flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and life insurance.
- Parental leave for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and children.
- 401(k) with company match.
About Riot Games
Riot Games develops and publishes online multiplayer games for PC and mobile, including League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. The company operates free-to-play titles monetized via in-game purchases and runs global esports leagues and events around its franchises. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Riot is a subsidiary of Tencent with offices worldwide.