Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer

Intrepid Studios’ Ashes of Creation team is looking for a highly motivated and talented Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer to join us, here in beautiful southern California. This role will report to the Lead Engineer and support our engineering team by implementing updates and new key features on Ashes of Creation to ensure that we deliver great gameplay and protection from cheating/abuse for our valued community! This is a great opportunity to unleash your creativity and partner with talented game veterans to craft a unique MMORPG that helps bring people together.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with designers, artists, and other engineers to ensure a great player experience
• Design and develop gameplay features across client and server to mitigate cheating and abuse
• Maintain familiarity of the game’s design, for both the live product and for future patches
• Collaborate with other members of the engineering team to build sustainable and maintainable technologies

Requirements

• A passion to make life difficult for the “bad guys”
• Mastery of C++
• A minimum of 7 years’ game programming experience
• A strong motivation to analyze and improve systems and infrastructure
• A solid understanding of Windows Internals and WINAPI.
• Self-motivation and willingness to participate in many areas of game development
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Pluses

• Experience with securing applications, game cheating, or client/network exploitation
• Proficiency in multi-threaded systems
• Previous experience designing gameplay systems for MMO games
• Bachelor’s degrees in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience with code and algorithmic optimization to improve performance
• A passion for playing MMO games

Required Application Materials:

• Resume & Portfolio
• Cover Letter which should include:
• Relevant information about yourself that demonstrates exceptional ability and goes beyond your resume
• Why you are interested in working at Intrepid
• What games you are currently playing

Interview Overview:

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that while this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
• 30 min interview with the hiring manager
• Test
• Panel interviews with several members of the hiring team
• Final interview with the executive team
• References calls & a background check