Anti-Cheat Engineering Intern (Masters/PhD) - Summer 2027

Riot Games·Los Angeles, USA·Posted 11 November 2026

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Riot’s Anti-Cheat team is passionate about protecting the integrity of multiplayer games and creating a fair experience for players. We work across low-level systems, software protection, and security research to help protect the legitimacy of players’ games. As an Anti-Cheat Engineering Intern, you’ll work with experienced Vanguard engineers on a summer research project exploring how agentic AI is changing the effectiveness of software obfuscation and virtualization. With mentorship from the team, you’ll use and improve research harnesses that iteratively challenge code-protection techniques, measure the boundaries of AI-assisted reverse engineering, and investigate methods for making protected code more resilient to AI analysis. You’ll turn your findings into repeatable experiments, clear technical documentation, and make recommendations that inform the future of Anti-Cheat and client software protection. Potential Responsibilities Work with Anti-Cheat engineers to scope and complete a bounded research project focused on AI-assisted analysis of obfuscated and virtualized code. Build and improve AI harnesses that iteratively improve and challenge code-protection techniques to…

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