AI Engineer

Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts

Potential bonus package

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking an AI Software Engineer in San Diego, CA to develop and support production AI capabilities. The role focuses on building applied AI features, collaborating across teams, and ensuring robust integrations within the digital commerce ecosystem.

Qualified candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field and 2+ years of experience in software engineering. Strong programming skills in Python and/or Java and familiarity with AWS are required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience required.
• Experience building AI or generative AI features.
• Strong skills in Python and/or Java for API development.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI features and services.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams.
• Deploy AI services using AWS and infrastructure as code.

Skills

Applied AI Features

Collaboration with stakeholders

Python programming

Java programming

AWS cloud services

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

OpenSearch

LangChain

Job description

AI Software Engineer - D2C - SPOC

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) PlayStation; San Diego, CA

Who we are

The Direct to Consumer (D2C) Data Science organization comprises data science, data engineering, and ML engineering practices. D2C Data Science helps PlayStation grow and operate its digital business across commerce, subscriptions, payments, lifecycle experiences, and player‑facing services. We partner with product, engineering, finance, marketing, and operations teams to turn experimentation, forecasting, AI, and production‑quality measurement into better player experiences.

Role overview

Within D2C Data Science, the D2C ML Engineering team is seeking an AI Software Engineer to design, build, and support production AI capabilities that solve high‑value business problems across SPOC and the broader digital commerce ecosystem. This is an applied AI engineering role focused on turning AI into dependable products, services, and automation.

What you’ll be doing

• Build Applied AI Features: Implement services, workflows, and reusable components for LLM‑powered automation, retrieval, tool use, summarization, classification, decision support, and knowledge workflows.
• Solve Business Problems with AI: Collaborate with operations, product, data, risk, and engineering stakeholders to understand use cases, prototype solutions, measure outcomes, and help move proven capabilities into production.
• Support Agentic Workflows and Integrations: Build AI workflows that use tool/function calling, structured outputs, workflow state, internal APIs, and human review patterns to take useful action while staying auditable and controlled.
• Develop Retrieval and Knowledge Systems: Contribute to RAG and agentic retrieval pipelines over enterprise content and operational data using embeddings, vector databases, hybrid search, reranking, citations, access controls, and freshness strategies.
• Improve AI Quality, Safety, and Evaluation: Create and maintain evaluation suites, regression tests, prompt/model versioning, trace analysis, guardrails, policy checks, PII handling, hallucination mitigation, and operational monitoring.
• Production AI Engineering: Develop scalable APIs, microservices, and event‑driven workflows in Python or Java, with attention to reliability, resilience, security, cost efficiency, and clean integration with existing services.
• Cloud Delivery and Automation: Deploy AI services using AWS, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, observability, and operational runbooks.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Participate in design reviews, implementation planning, troubleshooting, documentation, and knowledge sharing across technical and non‑technical teams.

What we’re looking for

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience, with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Applied AI Experience: Hands‑on experience building AI or generative AI features that connect model APIs to business workflows, data, documents, or internal services.
• Coding Proficiency: Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or Java, including API development, testing, debugging, asynchronous processing, and maintainable service design.
• Cloud Competency: Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud services.
• RAG and Retrieval Systems: Familiarity with embeddings, chunking, indexing, retrieval strategies, vector and hybrid search, reranking, citations, and vector stores such as OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate, Redis, pgvector, Azure AI Search, or similar technologies.
• Agent and Workflow Orchestration: Experience with AI orchestration patterns and tools such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI Agents SDK, N8N, AWS Bedrock Agents and Knowledge Bases, or comparable tools.
• Structured Outputs and Tool Use: Experience designing prompts, schemas, tool/function calls, workflow contracts, and validation logic so AI systems can produce dependable outputs and interact safely with internal systems.
• AI Observability and Evaluation: Familiarity with tracing, monitoring, evals, prompt testing, quality metrics, and debugging tools such as LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, or comparable platforms.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication skills, able to turn business requirements into technical tasks, collaborate across teams, and explain AI tradeoffs in clear, practical terms.

Preferred Skills

• Model Context and Connectors: Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar patterns for connecting AI applications to enterprise tools, databases, documents, and workflows.
• Multimodal AI Systems: Experience with text, image, document, audio, or video models, including multimodal embeddings, OCR/document understanding, or content moderation workflows.
• Commerce or Trust Domain Experience: Experience applying AI to fraud, payments, risk, customer support, marketplace operations, trust and safety, content operations, or digital commerce business processes.

Benefits

Base pay range: $150,000—$225,000 USD. The role is eligible for SIE’s top‑tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, employee discounts, and a potential bonus package.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or membership in any other legally protected category. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.