Chief Data & ML Architect - Senior IC

Sony Playstation; San Mateo (CA); Vor Ort; USD 304.000 - 456.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts for Sony products

Zusammenfassung

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) in San Mateo, CA, seeks a Sr. Principal Engineer, Data & Machine Learning to serve as chief architect for Data & Intelligence and as the senior technical authority for trusted data and intelligence.

This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role reporting to the VP, with no direct reports by design. You will drive three‑year data/ML strategy, author reference designs, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with security, governance and business teams to enable

Qualifikationen

• 15+ years in software, data or machine learning engineering.
• Author architecture, standards or platforms adopted across multiple organizations.
• Experience taking data/ML systems serving tens of millions into production at scale.
• Chairing an architecture review forum or equivalent technical leadership.
• Expertise in at least two areas: reusable data products, ML platforms or real‑time signals/activation.
• Strong command of distributed systems, cloud, data architecture, APIs, security, reliability, observability and performance engineering.
• Ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority.
• Outstanding written communication.
• Experience mentoring Staff, Principal or senior engineers.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience.

Aufgaben

• Translate strategy into a coherent technical architecture and principles.
• Chair the architecture review forum and publish decisions.
• Define boundary decisions between reusable platform capabilities and domain delivery.
• Define and ratify standards: data contracts, golden paths, model evaluation and lifecycle.
• Lead cross‑organizational initiatives with proposals and reference designs.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science to remove blockers.
• Partner with security, privacy, governance and responsible‑AI teams to embed controls.
• Identify duplication and improve interoperability across the data/ML landscape.
• Advise executives on investments, tradeoffs and long‑term risk.
• Represent data and ML direction in leadership forums and industry contexts.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Data architecture

APIs

Security and privacy

Observability

Reliability

Performance engineering

Influence without authority

Written communication

Ausbildung

Master’s degree in Computer Science, ML, Engineering or related discipline

Jobbeschreibung

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) in San Mateo, CA, seeks a Sr. Principal Engineer, Data & Machine Learning to serve as chief architect for Data & Intelligence and as the senior technical authority for trusted data and intelligence.

This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role reporting to the VP, with no direct reports by design. You will drive three‑year data/ML strategy, author reference designs, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with security, governance and business teams to enable