Staff Anti-Cheat Analyst - Games Tech Group

Riot Anti-Cheat is a highly adaptive team passionate about their craft. We understand the player impact of cheating in games and are focused on setting the highest bar for the integrity of multiplayer games. As a Staff Analyst on Anti-Cheat, you will report to the Operations Manager. You will be involved with identifying, detecting, and actioning cheats and other nefarious abuses of third-party tools across Riot titles, protecting our games and handling resolutions for player accounts. You will help to lead Anti-Cheat in identification, detection, and prevention of major methods within the cheating ecosystem, as well as other intentional and nefarious impediments to a competitive player experience.

You will be proactive, measured, and innovative in using Riot’s state of the art technology to stay ahead of an evolutionary adversary. You are motivated to maintain and improve the integrity of Riot Games’ titles, fostering a competitive environment for our players. You're comfortable in being able to communicate with both players and internal stakeholders, being able to translate your subject matter expertise into tangible goals, metrics, and resolutions. Your expertise in reverse engineering, data analysis and automation, and modern game engines can enable you to detect and remove the most pervasive of threats to competitive integrity. You'll foster a culture of adaptability, persistence, and collaboration, both through your individual contributions and your leadership of large campaigns. 

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Anti-Cheat team, across multiple disciplines, to identify, detect, and remove violators of Third Party Tools policies across Riot titles.
• Investigate threats hands-on, integrating with cheat communities to acquire intelligence and software samples, identifying and labeling industry trends
• Interface with samples of cheats, using tooling and reverse engineering to create accurate, effective detections.
• Wrangle, interpret, and productionize data, automating accurate detections for cheat classes and other methods of abuse within Riot Vanguard ecosystem
• Inform initiatives on Anti-Cheat engineering iterations, through subject matter expertise and large scale, consumable analysis
• Represent Anti-Cheat in cross-team collaborations, informing game teams of best practices, creating processes to make design recommendations into actions.
• Communicate with legitimate players about Anti-Cheat subjects, contributing to articles and other publications around the matter.
• Lead Anti-Cheat Operations’ technical foundations, advocating and educating on best tech practices for the pod.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or equivalent job experience
• 6-8 years of experience in matters of game integrity, including attacking or defending it.
• Excellent teamwork and stakeholder management skills
• 6-8 years of experience in data notebooking tools such as Jupyter and Databricks, with ability to both analyze and ETL large data sets
• 6-8 years of experience in automation of internal processes and systems, utilizing languages such as Python
• Statistical computing and analysis through programming languages like R or Python
• Proficiency with database querying languages, particularly SQL, to make precise and actionable queries on anomalous behavior
• Analysis and visualization of data into consumable product analytics for internal stakeholders, through usage of data notebooks and dashboarding software like Tableau
• Technical understanding of Windows processes and memory, including CPU modes and other aspects of the operating system security suite
• Familiar with cheat development and process instrumentation techniques
• Expertise with statistical concepts like regression and A/B testing

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with cheating in a competitive environment, understanding the ecosystems and motivations
• Experience with development and version control tools (Visual Studio, Git, WinDbg)
• Direct experience with the Windows Kernel and driver development
• Comfortable reverse engineering applications statically/dynamically
• Knowledge of internal tooling systems, with a comfort to continually learn them

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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