Senior Engineer, ARM Platform Security – RICOCHET – Central Technology
About The Position
The Senior Engineer will help port key Ricochet security features to Windows on Arm, drawing on experience with the platform to protect Call of Duty’s integrity as the game expands to more PC platforms. The role is part of Activision Central Technology’s Game Security team, whose priorities may change with the threat landscape. The engineer will help develop and maintain anti-cheat technologies, investigate cheat detection approaches, improve existing protection frameworks, and collaborate with engineers across teams and studios to integrate solutions and maintain performance. The work addresses complex technical challenges and supports fair play for millions of players.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of relevant professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of experience with the Windows platform on ARM.
- Proven experience working on large-scale, complex systems.
- Experience with C++ codebases and refactoring.
- Experience in an engineering organization focused on CI/CD, scalability, and automation.
- Expertise in debugging, optimization, and performance tuning.
- Advanced knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Strong passion for delivering high-quality products.
- Curiosity and drive to understand systems at a low level, 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 written and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Windows internals.
- Experience with Windows security.
- Experience working on the internals of a multiplayer game engine.
- Experience in reverse engineering and software analysis.
- Background in mathematics and/or cryptography.
- Deep understanding or hands-on experience with C++ compilation, linking, and toolchains, including diagnosing compiler and linker failures and optimizing build performance.
- Deep understanding of or hands-on experience in the anti-cheat domain.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement advanced anti-cheat technologies to address emerging threats.
- Analyze, update, and enhance existing protection frameworks.
- Investigate, develop, and deploy cheat-detection mechanisms.
- Work with engineers across teams and studios to support seamless integration and performance.
- Help port key security features to Windows on Arm.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Health savings or health reimbursement account and healthcare and dependent-care spending accounts.
- Life and AD&D insurance and disability insurance.
- 401(k) with Company match.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Charitable donation matching.
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, and floating holidays.
- Compassion and bereavement leave.
- Parental leave.
- Mental health and wellbeing programs.
- Fitness programs.
- Free and discounted games.
- Other voluntary benefit programs, including supplemental life and disability coverage, legal services, ID protection, and rental insurance.
- Relocation assistance may be available if the Company requires the employee to move geographic locations for the job.
- May be eligible for incentive compensation; it is not guaranteed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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