Staff Software Engineer

PlayStation Global; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology company in London is seeking a Staff Engineer specializing in AI middleware and agent technology. In this role, you will architect and operate AI middleware systems, build agentic workflows, and develop enterprise data pipelines. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of software engineering experience with expertise in Python or TypeScript, as well as a solid understanding of ML concepts and cloud platforms. Join a diverse team committed to innovation and inclusivity. This is a full-time position with opportunities for mentorship and development.

Qualifications

• More than 10 years in software engineering, 3+ years building ML-centric systems.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript, strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Practical knowledge of ML/GenAI concepts.
• Solid understanding of workflow orchestration frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with data-pipeline tooling.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms and containerization.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage Model Context Protocol servers for AI agent consumption.
• Deploy and extend AI platforms to deliver orchestrated governance.
• Build pipelines to cleanse and store enterprise data.
• Translate prototypes into production-grade microservices.
• Engineer workflows meeting enterprise standards for compliance.
• Collaborate with teams and mentor engineers.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Machine Learning

Workflow Orchestration

Data Pipeline Tooling

Cloud Platforms

Containerization

Communication Skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

LangChain

Hugging Face Transformers

Postgres

DynamoDB

Redis

Pinecone

Job description

Why PlayStation

PlayStation isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Today were recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5 PlayStation4 PlayStationVR PlayStationPlus acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation technology and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment a wholly‑owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

We are in search of a Staff Engineer with expertise in AI middleware and agent technology to help develop future AI middleware and agent platforms for PlayStation IT. This role blends deep expertise in AI engineering systems integration and full‑stack development to design and deliver intelligent agents that operate across enterprise domains.

This is a hands‑on senior engineering role that requires a strong bias for action an agile attitude and the ability to change directions quickly as the AI landscape evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and Operate AI Middleware : Design implement and manage Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers gateways and API wrappers that securely expose enterprise systems tools and data for AI agent consumption.
• Build and Govern Agentic Workflows : Deploy and extend agentic AI platforms (e.g. LangGraph LangChain) to deliver resilient orchestration enforcing governance tracing audit logs and human‑in‑the‑loop controls.
• Develop Enterprise Data & Context Pipelines : Build scalable pipelines for parsing cleaning embedding and storing structured and unstructured enterprise data (text code multimedia) to enable retrieval‑augmented generation and domain‑specific agent knowledge.
• Productize and Optimize AI Services : Translate prototypes into production‑grade microservices (Python / TypeScript Kubernetes CI / CD) optimizing for latency throughput resilience and token / cost efficiency.
• Ensure Security Compliance and Reliability : Engineer AI middleware and workflows that meet enterprise standards for safety governance compliance and fault tolerance with built‑in monitoring telemetry and automated evaluation harnesses.
• Lead Collaborate and Mentor : Partner multi‑functionally with architects platform teams and product owners to deliver business‑aligned AI solutions while mentoring engineers and staying at the forefront of emerging LLM and middleware trends.

Qualifications

• More than 10 years in software engineering with a minimum of 3 years involved in building ML‑data‑or‑LLM‑centric systems.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript (ideally both) with strong software‑engineering fundamentals (testing design patterns observability performance tuning).
• Practical knowledge of ML / GenAI concepts : embeddings vector search prompt engineering fine‑tuning and evaluation metrics.
• Solid understanding of workflow orchestration frameworks for LLM / GenAI pipelines.
• Hands‑on experience with data‑pipeline tooling and batch / stream ETL.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform CDK).
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate across teams in a fast‑paced environment.

Domain Expertise

• LLM tooling : LangChain LangGraph LlamaIndex Hugging Face Transformers OpenAI or Anthropic APIs
• Data stores : Postgres DynamoDB Redis and vector databases such as Pinecone Weaviate FAISS
• Observability : distributed tracing metrics dashboards cost monitoring for token‑based services
• Security & Responsible AI : PII redaction content‑safety filters bias evaluation
• Bonus : proficiency in Go experience with multimodal or edge inference contributions to GenAI open‑source projects

Equal Opportunity Statement

Sony 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.

We strive to create an inclusive environment empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

Employment Details

Employment Type : Full‑Time

Vacancy : 1