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Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re 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.\nSenior Software Engineer - Applied AI & Streaming\nAliso Viejo, CA\nThe vision\n 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, you'll build agents and inference-backed systems into a real-time streaming platform and ship them to players. You'll work where AI meets performance-sensitive systems, and a lot of the problems here are still being defined.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities across our streaming platform and player experience.\nApply inference and agents to real-time performance, player engagement, personalization, and accessibility.\nUse AI to understand, optimize, and evolve large existing codebases, including our streaming stack.\nBuild and extend our platform in C++, and help shape the technologies and architecture we use next.\nBuild what production AI needs: evaluation, telemetry, guardrails, fallbacks, and attention to latency and cost.\nTurn ambiguous ideas into demos and experiments, measure what works, and harden it for production.\nWork AI-natively every day, using coding agents, automation, and rapid exploration, and help the team do the same.\nWork with a small, focused engineering team and with partners across streaming, platform, and cloud.\nYou're a great fit if you have\nA BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nSenior-level software engineering experience with a track record of owning complex systems end to end.\nStrong C++ skills from professional work in production codebases.\nHands-on experience building and deploying agents or AI-powered features in production. You've worked through evals, regressions, latency, cost, and the ways these systems fail.\nA 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.\nFluency with AI-native engineering workflows.\nProduct judgment. You can tell when AI makes an experience better and when it's a gimmick.\nThe ability to work in ambiguity, move quickly, and keep momentum as priorities change.\nClear communication, strong ownership, and a habit of making the people around you better.\nBonus XP\nPython, Rust, or other languages used to build and serve AI systems.\nLow-latency or on-device inference, model optimization, or GPU experience.\nReal-time media, game streaming, graphics, or video experience.\nCloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or production platform experience.\nExperience building conversational or agentic experiences for games or interactive products.\nLinux or Windows systems experience.\nJapanese language or cross-cultural collaboration experience.\nYou enjoy playing video games.\nWhy join us\nWork on AI problems most engineers never get to. In real-time systems, every millisecond counts, and so does every inference call.\nHelp set the direction. Our AI strategy is still taking shape, and you'll help decide what we build, not just how.\nGet real ownership. You'll join a small, senior team where ideas go from prototype to production quickly.\nAt SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.\nPlease 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. \nIn addition, this role is eligiblefor SIE’s 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.Click here to learn more.\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n$177,300—$265,900 USD\nPlease note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.\nPlease refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.\nEqual Opportunity Statement:\nSony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.\nWe strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. 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