Senior Video Codec & GPU Software Engineer

Talentify; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA is seeking a senior graphics/video codecs engineer to drive architecture and development for PlayStation SDKs and cloud gaming pipelines.

The role emphasizes ML-based video quality improvements, encoder/decoder feature ownership, and collaboration with platform, hardware, and system software teams to push high-performance codecs across CPU/GPU pipelines. Experience with real-time media, profiling, and delivering production-ready code is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with GPU programming using HLSL, Vulkan, or CUDA.
• Proficient in C and C++ with multi-threaded programming and debugging.
• Proficient with development tools including IDEs, Git/SVN, JIRA.
• Proven ability to deliver features from design to validation with clean code.
• Master's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Drive video codecs architecture design and development for PlayStation SDKs and cloud gaming platform.
• Drive product-focused algorithm innovation for video codecs, aligning performance with product needs.
• Own encoder/decoder features with ML-based video quality enhancements.
• Partner with platform, hardware, and system software teams to resolve complex issues across the codec pipeline.
• Evaluate emerging codec and media technologies and plan future integration.

Skills

GPU programming

C/C++ development

Performance profiling

Software debugging

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Git/SVN

JIRA

IDEs

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA is seeking a senior graphics/video codecs engineer to drive architecture and development for PlayStation SDKs and cloud gaming pipelines.

The role emphasizes ML-based video quality improvements, encoder/decoder feature ownership, and collaboration with platform, hardware, and system software teams to push high-performance codecs across CPU/GPU pipelines. Experience with real-time media, profiling, and delivering production-ready code is essential.