Senior Software Engineer – Applied AI & Streaming
Job Location:
Aliso Viejo, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation were part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
Aliso Viejo CA
The vision
We think AI will change what cloud gaming can be. It can make streamed play faster more personal and more accessible and in some ways better than playing locally. As a Senior Software Engineer on our team youll build agents and inference-backed systems into a real-time streaming platform and ship them to players. Youll work where AI meets performance-sensitive systems and a lot of the problems here are still being defined.
- Design prototype and ship AI-powered capabilities across our streaming platform and player experience.
- Apply inference and agents to real-time performance player engagement personalization and accessibility.
- Use AI to understand optimize and evolve large existing codebases including our streaming stack.
- Build and extend our platform in C and help shape the technologies and architecture we use next.
- Build what production AI needs: evaluation telemetry guardrails fallbacks and attention to latency and cost.
- Turn ambiguous ideas into demos and experiments measure what works and harden it for production.
- Work AI-natively every day using coding agents automation and rapid exploration and help the team do the same.
- Work with a small focused engineering team and with partners across streaming platform and cloud.
Youre a great fit if you have
- A BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- Senior-level software engineering experience with a track record of owning complex systems end to end.
- Strong C skills from professional work in production codebases.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying agents or AI-powered features in production. Youve worked through evals regressions latency cost and the ways these systems fail.
- A strong grasp of how to turn models into products including context and prompt design tool use and orchestration memory and retrieval model selection and where inference should run.
- Fluency with AI-native engineering workflows.
- Product judgment. You can tell when AI makes an experience better and when its a gimmick.
- The ability to work in ambiguity move quickly and keep momentum as priorities change.
- Clear communication strong ownership and a habit of making the people around you better.
Bonus XP
- Python Rust or other languages used to build and serve AI systems.
- Low-latency or on-device inference model optimization or GPU experience.
- Real-time media game streaming graphics or video experience.
- Cloud infrastructure distributed systems or production platform experience.
- Experience building conversational or agentic experiences for games or interactive products.
- Linux or Windows systems experience.
- Japanese language or cross-cultural collaboration experience.
- You enjoy playing video games.
Why join us
- Work on AI problems most engineers never get real-time systems every millisecond counts and so does every inference call.
- Help set the direction. Our AI strategy is still taking shape and youll help decide what we build not just how.
- Get real ownership. Youll join a small senior team where ideas go from prototype to production quickly.
At SIE we consider several factors when setting each roles base pay range including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location.
In addition this role is eligible for SIEs top-tier benefits package that includes medical dental vision matching 401(k) paid time off wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Clickhere to learn more.
The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$177300 - $265900 USD
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Explore the new generation PlayStation 4 and PS5 consoles - experience immersive gaming with thousands of hit games in every genre to rewrite the rules for what a PlayStation console can do.
