Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering (Embedded Vanguard) - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat
Los Angeles · Mercer Island · Redwood City · 4+ years experience · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Location
- Los Angeles · Mercer Island · Redwood City
About the role
- The Anti-Cheat Engineering Manager for Mobile Vanguard leads the team responsible for developing and evolving Vanguard Anti-Cheat services on mobile platforms.
- This role involves setting technical direction, shaping priorities, and ensuring the delivery of secure, reliable anti-cheat capabilities.
- The manager will guide architecture, challenge technical decisions, and analyze emerging cheat techniques to implement effective detections and mitigations.
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.
- Lead the team in translating emerging threats into resilient detections and preventative countermeasures.
- Balance immediate threat response with proactive technical investments to anticipate adversaries.
- Partner with game teams across genres to understand security needs and shape the security landscape.
- Promote secure coding standards and design to reduce vectors for cheating.
- Keep up-to-date with the state of cheats and cheating techniques across mobile titles.
- Support game teams directly in understanding cheating ecosystems and integrating Anti-Cheat.
Requirements
- Minimum 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.
Preferred 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 (Frida, IDA Pro, Radare2, etc).
- Experience with Gen9 Console (Xbox Series XS and/or PS5) development.
- Experience with macOS platform and security features.
Benefits
- Open paid time off policy
- Flexible work schedules
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Parental leave
- 401k with company match
Skills
- Android
- iOS
- C++
- C
- Android SDK
- NDK
- Xcode
- LLVM
- Frida
- IDA Pro
- Radare2
