Senior Principal Data & ML Architect for Gaming

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 304,000 - 456,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. in San Mateo, CA, seeks a Senior Principal Engineer, Data & Machine Learning to act as chief architect for the Data & Intelligence organization. This role is an IC and reports to the VP, shaping trusted data, ML platforms and activation across PlayStation.

The position emphasizes hands-on architecture, reference implementations and collaboration with security, governance and product teams to deliver scalable data products reaching tens of millions of users.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software, data or ML engineering.
• 9+ years leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale, complex systems.
• Proven track record of authoring architectures, standards or platforms used across multiple orgs.
• Experience taking data, ML or decisioning systems serving tens of millions of consumers into production.
• Strong written communication; ability to influence senior executives and engineering leaders.
• Experience mentoring Staff, Principal or Senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Translate multi-year Data & Intelligence strategy into a coherent technical strategy and target architecture.
• Chair the architecture review forum: charter, cadence, decisions and adherence.
• Own boundary decisions between platform reuse and domain delivery; keep them stable.
• Define and ratify data contracts, golden paths, model evaluation and lifecycle standards.
• Lead cross-organizational initiatives; publish designs and prototypes from concept to production.
• Collaborate with security, privacy, legal, governance and responsible‑AI teams to embed controls.
• Mentor senior engineers and align technical investments with business outcomes.
• Represent SIE’s data and ML direction in leadership forums and partner organizations.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems

Data governance

Machine learning

Communication

Mentoring

Executive influence

Cloud

Security & privacy

Research to production

Education

Master’s degree in CS/ML/Engineering

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. in San Mateo, CA, seeks a Senior Principal Engineer, Data & Machine Learning to act as chief architect for the Data & Intelligence organization. This role is an IC and reports to the VP, shaping trusted data, ML platforms and activation across PlayStation.

The position emphasizes hands-on architecture, reference implementations and collaboration with security, governance and product teams to deliver scalable data products reaching tens of millions of users.