Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering (Embedded Vanguard) - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat
Riot Games · Los Angeles, USA; Mercer Island, USA; Redwood City, USA
About this role
**Riot — Anti-Cheat Engineering Manager (Embedded Vanguard) — Central Technology, Anti-Cheat** Riot’s Anti-Cheat team is versatile and passionate about protecting the integrity of multiplayer games. You’ll lead the team responsible for the ongoing development and evolution of **Vanguard Anti-Cheat services on mobile**—helping set direction, shape priorities, and ensure secure, reliable capabilities are delivered across Vanguard’s mobile suite. You’ll enable the team and drive outcomes, using your strong fluency in **mobile security and cheat techniques** to guide architecture, challenge technical decisions, and step into complex debugging or investigations when needed. You’ll help the team anticipate and analyze emerging cheat techniques, then translate findings into effective **detections, mitigations, and preventative controls**. You’ll report to the **Senior Engineering Manager** of the Anti-Cheat team. --- ## Responsibilities - Manage, identify, recruit, interview, and hire engineers to help the team scale effectively - Set direction and drive high-impact anti-cheat capabilities from ambiguity through production to prevent cheating in **mobile and console** environments - Lead rapid translation of emerging threats into resilient detections and preventative countermeasures deployable at scale - Balance immediate threat response with proactive technical investments that anticipate adversaries’ next moves or eliminate common abuse vectors - Partner with game teams across genres to understand their security needs and help shape the security landscape - Promote secure coding standards and design that reduce vectors for cheating - Stay up-to-date on the state of cheats and cheating techniques across mobile titles - Support game teams directly in understanding cheating ecosystems and integrating Anti-Cheat --- ## Required Qualifications - **4+ years** of industry experience - Familiarity or experience with **Android and/or iOS** platform security models - Deep technical understanding of **mobile platforms (Android/iOS)** - Experience building and deploying **mobile native (C/C++) SDKs and/or frameworks** --- ## Desired Qualifications - Experience with **Android and/or iOS build tools** (Android SDK/NDK, Xcode, LLVM) - Familiarity with Android/iOS executable formats, reverse engineering, or binary exploitation - Experience with mobile reverse engineering tools (e.g., **Frida, IDA Pro, Radare2**) - Experience with **Gen9 Console (Xbox Series XS and/or PS5)** development (plus) - Experience with **macOS** platform and security features (plus) --- *Success in this role comes from craft expertise, collaboration, and choices focused on fellow Rioters (your “customers”). Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position.* --- ## Perks (Highlights) - Work/life balance with open paid time off and flexible schedules - Medical, dental, and life insurance - Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children - 401(k) with company match - Additional benefits: see Riot’s benefits pages --- ## Equal Opportunity Riot is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations. The role may involve core duties related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations, which may evolve based on business needs.
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