Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform

San Diego, CA

Role Overview

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform in San Diego, CA to architect and lead the design of next-generation ML inference infrastructure to support globally distributed, multi-tenant model serving with high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent and five (5) years of experience designing and deploying low-latency, high-throughput inference systems supporting computer vision and multimodal models including CNNs, segmentation and object detection; building large-scale distributed systems in Scala using reactive frameworks, multithreading, and Guice dependency injection; integrating enterprise feature stores to ensure consistent, low-latency feature delivery; developing ML inference services within Bazel-based monorepos ensuring hermetic builds and seamless integration with secure enterprise CI/CD pipelines (Prow); extending GitHub Prow workflows by writing Golang plugins/controllers to automate reviews, enforce policies, and coordinate multi-repo build/test/deploy pipelines; utilizing Pulumi to provision and manage scalable, reproducible, and cloud-agnostic inference environments; applying formal methods and computational theory to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance of distributed inference algorithms; optimizing ML algorithms in Scala, Java, and Go to improve memory efficiency, hardware utilization, and runtime speed; designing advanced observability frameworks with distributed tracing, model drift detection, and performance analytics; and standardizing ML platform practices while mentoring engineers and aligning architecture with MLOps, compliance (GDPR, SOC2), and scalability standards.
  
  
• Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies.

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In addition, this role is eligible for 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.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$187,363 – $265,900/year

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