Senior Software Engineer – Applied AI & Streaming

1 month ago

Aliso Viejo, CA, USASenior

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$177k - $266k/yr

Responsibilities

Design, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities across the streaming platform and player experience.
Apply inference and agents to real-time performance, player engagement, personalization, and accessibility.
Build and extend the platform in C++ and help shape future technologies and architecture.
Develop production AI capabilities including evaluation, telemetry, guardrails, fallbacks, and latency and cost controls.
Turn ambiguous ideas into experiments and demos, measure results, and harden successful capabilities for production.
Collaborate with a focused engineering team and partners across streaming, platform, and cloud.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Senior-level software engineering experience owning complex systems end to end.
Strong professional experience with C++ in production codebases.
Hands-on experience building and deploying agents or AI-powered features in production, including handling evaluations, regressions, latency, cost, and failure modes.
Understanding of context and prompt design, tool use and orchestration, memory and retrieval, model selection, and inference placement.
Fluency with AI-native engineering workflows and strong product judgment.
Clear communication, ownership, adaptability, and a track record of improving team effectiveness.
Preferred experience with Python, Rust, low-latency or on-device inference, model optimization, GPUs, real-time media, game streaming, graphics, video, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, production platforms, conversational or agentic experiences, Linux, Windows, Japanese, or cross-cultural collaboration.

Medical, dental, and vision benefits; matching 401(k); paid time off; wellness program; and Sony product discounts.
The role may be eligible for a bonus package.
The position is based in Aliso Viejo, California, and the base pay range may vary with Sony’s hybrid working policy.
Sony conducts background checks at the offer stage for new employees.