Senior Expert, ARM Kernel Developer

Job Description:

  • Design, develop, and maintain kernel-mode driver capabilities for anti-cheat protections across x64 and Windows on Arm platforms
  • Analyze, port, debug, and enhance production driver functionality
  • Ensure driver stability, performance, and compatibility across hardware and Windows configurations
  • Research cheat techniques and evasion methods
  • Develop resilient detection and protection mechanisms using Windows internals, reverse engineering, and kernel architecture
  • Partner with security engineers, platform teams, and external partners
  • Validate hardware compatibility
  • Improve development and testing infrastructure
  • Ship and operate driver technology in live products
  • Support Activision development studios and their titles through Central Technology

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of professional software development experience with deep expertise in C/C++
  • 5+ years developing, debugging, and maintaining Windows kernel-mode drivers
  • Proven experience building and supporting production-quality system software
  • Windows on Arm, ARM64, or ARM64EC development experience
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving complex driver, platform, and OS compatibility issues
  • Experience with automated build, test, and validation environments
  • Deep understanding of Windows on Arm, Windows kernel, driver model, and operating system internals
  • Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Arm, x86/x64 assembly
  • Expert-level debugging skills using WinDbg and related tooling
  • Strong understanding of Windows Internals, process, memory, and executable image internals
  • Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures
  • Passion for building reliable, high-quality low-level software
  • Curiosity to understand how systems work internally and solve complex technical problems
  • Comfortable analyzing and debugging code at the assembly level
  • Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills
  • Clear and effective communication skills
  • Windows security or security software development experience
  • Reverse engineering experience
  • Experience developing anti-cheat, endpoint security, anti-malware, or EDR solutions
  • Experience working with multiplayer game technology
  • Understanding of advanced cheat-evasion techniques, rootkits, bootkits, hypervisors, DKOM, EPT manipulation, and vulnerable-driver abuse
  • Deep understanding of C++ build systems, compilation, linking, and toolchains

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
  • 401(k) with Company match
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Charitable donation matching
  • Paid holidays and vacation
  • Paid sick time
  • Floating holidays
  • Compassion and bereavement leaves
  • Parental leave
  • Mental health & wellbeing programs
  • Fitness programs
  • Free and discounted games
  • Supplemental life & disability insurance
  • Legal service
  • ID protection
  • Rental insurance
  • Relocation assistance may be available if the Company requires geographic relocation
  • Incentive compensation may be available (not guaranteed)
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