Staff Software Engineer, Console GPU Inference

Description

The company is Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the company behind the PlayStation brand. It is a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. SIE makes cutting-edge hardware and network services used by more than 100 million people, and it is a leading entertainment company that owns some of the best-known intellectual property in the world.

The role sits in ATG, the group that builds rendering and ray tracing libraries, GPU tools, the shader compiler, and that contributes to the architecture of several PlayStation console generations. The team supports system and game developers with the tools they need on the platform.

The position is highly senior and sits at the core of PlayStation technology.

Responsibilities

• Take partial ownership of the design and delivery of critical software components that run different types of runtime machine learning inference on PlayStation consoles.
• Provide technical leadership, drive innovation, and advance the core principles and architectures behind these systems.
• Write hands-on code for these systems.
• Work with internal and external groups around the world to set company-level technology strategy and processes, and help define project scope.
• Work closely with key hardware and software stakeholders and manage strategic engagement with external vendors.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in a senior engineering role.
• A consistent record of significant, successful technical contributions, including owning the success of a large engineering or game project from design through release and maintenance.
• Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing software and tools for game consoles.
• At least 5 years of GPU programming experience is essential. You should also be familiar with GPUs, be fluent in C/C++ and shader languages, and understand GPU programming and low-level computing well enough to deliver technically excellent work.
• Familiarity with machine learning is an asset.
• Sony Interactive Entertainment runs background checks at the offer stage for all new employees, which may include criminal background checks for some roles, and will process personal information for these checks.