Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform

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Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform San Diego, CA Role Overview 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. Requirements 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. 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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below. $187,363 – $265,900/year Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. 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