Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform in San Diego, CA to architect and lead the design of next-generation ML inference infrastructure to support globally distributed, multi-tenant model serving with high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Requires a Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent and five (5) years of experience designing and deploying low-latency, high- throughput inference systems supporting computer vision and multimodal models including CNNs, segmentation and object detection; building large-scale distributed systems in Scala using reactive frameworks, multithreading, and Guice dependency injection; integrating enterprise feature stores to ensure consistent, low-latency feature delivery; developing ML inference services within Bazel-based monorepos ensuring hermetic builds and seamless integration with secure enterprise CI/CD pipelines (Prow); extending GitHub Prow workflows by writing Golang plugins/controllers to automate reviews, enforce policies, and coordinate multi-repo build/test/deploy pipelines; utilizing Pulumi to provision and manage scalable, reproducible, and cloud-agnostic inference environments; applying formal methods and computational theory to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance of distributed inference algorithms; optimizing ML algorithms in Scala, Java, and Go to improve memory efficiency, hardware utilization, and runtime speed; designing advanced observability frameworks with distributed tracing, model drift detection, and performance analytics; and standardizing ML platform practices while mentoring engineers and aligning architecture with MLOps, compliance (GDPR, SOC2), and scalability standards. Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies. Salary range: $187,363 – $265,900/year. Please apply to https://careers.playstation.com/#jobs-list-section and search by 200583. Sony is an EOE. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO, wellness & discounts. For more information, visit this link: https://careers.playstation.com/benefits