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

The Legal Bits:

We offer competitive pay based on market standards plus a significant annual bonus structure. The base salary for this role is between $125,000 - $187,500, depending on skills and experience. Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall throughout the range based on these factors.

Job descriptions are not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that may be required of the employee.

We encourage individuals from all backgrounds, including race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, to apply for positions. We are an equal opportunity employer and we're committed to a fair and consistent interview process and employer experience.

About Us:

Founded in 2015, Intrepid Studios is the independent developer and publisher of the upcoming and Most Anticipated MMORPG, Ashes of Creation. Based in beautiful Southern California, Intrepid has assembled a veteran AAA team of tremendous talent and experience in the MMORPG industry. The gaming industry can be a turbulent storm of hiring cycles and layoffs. We’ve set out to do something different, to break this cycle and create an independent studio capable of withstanding the chaos of this industry. We’ve brought on-board a team of professionals that hold a diverse set of skills, and who all share a singular goal: making fun games. The studio is designed to be an open place for collaboration and communication, a place that is conducive to team building and success. Our goal is to build a family that will laugh together, play together, succeed together, and stay together.

All posted positions are full-time with generous medical benefit options covered 100% by employer for employees and dependents plus paid vacation & sick days, and 401k with matching.