Mobile Game Security Software Engineer

Location: El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $146,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops and publishes games worldwide through studios including PUBG Studios, Striking Distance Studios, Unknown Worlds, Bluehole Studio, and RisingWings.

What you will do

• Research and develop mobile Anti-Cheat and Anti-Tamper features for Android and iOS games.
• Detect and respond to tampering, repackaging, hooking, debugging, rooting, jailbreaking, and automation tools.
• Analyze mobile operating system internals, runtimes, system calls, security mechanisms, process structures, and memory behavior.
• Design and implement memory and process protection, runtime environment verification, and unauthorized tool detection.
• Research emerging mobile cheat and attack techniques and develop defensive technologies.
• Support reliable deployment and continuous improvement of hirify.global Security Services across multiple mobile game environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of C++ software development experience with object-oriented design.
• Experience developing mobile Anti-Cheat, Anti-Tamper, DRM, security, or client protection technologies.
• Understanding of memory management, multithreading, mobile operating systems, runtimes, process and memory structures, and executable file formats.
• Experience developing native Android or iOS clients, or equivalent technical understanding.
• Ability to analyze security problems, anticipate bypass methods, and design effective solutions.
• Ability to learn new technologies and solve unfamiliar problems.

Nice to have

• Experience designing, developing, or operating SaaS-based Anti-Cheat or Anti-Tamper security solutions.
• Experience with Android NDK, JNI, Objective-C, Swift, Mach-O, ELF, ARM/AArch64, or assembly.
• Experience with reverse engineering and debugging tools such as IDA, Ghidra, Frida, LLDB, or lldb-server.
• Research experience in malware analysis, vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, or anti-debugging.
• Experience operating security features in large-scale live mobile game environments with attention to performance, stability, and compatibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on hirify.global Security Services, a standardized game security platform used across multiple studios.
• Contribute to a trusted gameplay environment for globally distributed game products.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified candidates with disabilities.
• hirify.global Americas provides equal employment opportunities and prohibits discrimination and harassment.