Senior Software Engineer – AI-Driven Real-Time Streaming

PlayStation; Aliso Viejo (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Aliso Viejo, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Applied AI & Streaming to build AI-powered capabilities into real-time streaming. You will own features from design to production, optimizing latency and cost while working with a small, senior team across streaming and cloud.

Prospective candidates should have strong C++, production-grade AI experience, and the ability to turn models into usable products with robust telemetry and guardrails.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Senior-level software engineering experience with a track record of owning complex systems end to end.
• Strong C++ skills from production codebases.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying agents or AI-powered features in production.
• A strong grasp of how to turn models into products, including context and prompt design, tool use and orchestration, memory and retrieval, model selection, and where inference should run.
• Fluency with AI-native engineering workflows.
• Product judgment. You can tell when AI makes an experience better and when it's a gimmick.
• The ability to work in ambiguity, move quickly, and keep momentum as priorities change.
• Clear communication, strong ownership, and a habit of making the people around you better.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities across our streaming platform and player experience.
• Apply inference and agents to real-time performance, player engagement, personalization, and accessibility.
• Use AI to understand, optimize, and evolve large existing codebases, including our streaming stack.
• Build and extend our platform in C++, and help shape the technologies and architecture we use next.
• Build what production AI needs: evaluation, telemetry, guardrails, fallbacks, and attention to latency and cost.
• Turn ambiguous ideas into demos and experiments, measure what works, and harden it for production.
• Work AI‑natively every day, using coding agents, automation, and rapid exploration, and help the team do the same.
• Work with a small, focused engineering team and with partners across streaming, platform, and cloud.

Skills

C++

AI-powered features

AI-native workflows

Communication

Ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Product judgment

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Rust

Other languages

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Aliso Viejo, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Applied AI & Streaming to build AI-powered capabilities into real-time streaming. You will own features from design to production, optimizing latency and cost while working with a small, senior team across streaming and cloud.

Prospective candidates should have strong C++, production-grade AI experience, and the ability to turn models into usable products with robust telemetry and guardrails.