Senior Principal Engineer, Data & Machine Learning

The role

This Senior Principal Engineer serves as the chief architect and senior technical authority for the Data & Intelligence organization. You will set the technical strategy, author architectures, and lead a community of Principal Engineers to build reusable data and intelligence systems for PlayStation.

What you will do

• Translate multi-year Data & Intelligence strategy into technical strategy and target architecture
• Chair the architecture review forum
• Own boundary decisions between platform capabilities and domain delivery
• Define and ratify standards for data contracts, golden paths, and model evaluation
• Lead technical direction for cross-organizational initiatives through proposals and prototypes
• Work with engineering and data science teams to remove critical blockers
• Partner with security, privacy, legal, governance and responsible-AI teams
• Identify and retire duplicative capabilities
• Advise senior executives on technical investments and long-term risk
• Lead and mentor a community of Principal, Staff, and Senior engineers

Required qualifications

• 15+ years in software, data or machine learning engineering
• 9+ years leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale, complex systems
• Track record of authoring architectures, standards or platforms adopted across multiple organizations
• Experience taking data, ML or decisioning systems serving tens of millions of consumers into production
• Experience chairing or being the deciding technical voice in an architecture review forum
• Deep expertise in at least two of: reusable data products, semantic and metadata layers and data contracts; ML platforms, lifecycle management, evaluation and decisioning; real-time signals, distribut
• Strong command of distributed systems, cloud, data architecture, APIs, security, reliability, observability and performance engineering
• Ability to influence senior executives, engineering and product leaders without direct authority
• Outstanding written communication
• Experience mentoring Staff, Principal or similarly senior technical professionals
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Data and ML applied in gaming, entertainment, media, digital commerce or another large-scale consumer ecosystem
• Personalization, recommendations, customer intelligence, content intelligence, experimentation or predictive decisioning at scale
• Shared data or ML platforms serving multiple products and organizational domains
• Feature, vector, graph, semantic or knowledge platforms; AI gateways and LLMOps
• Experience translating research or emerging technology into production capabilities
• Contributions to the field through open source, patents, publications or conference talks

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Matching 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Wellness program
• Employee discounts for Sony products
• Possible bonus package

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand and a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is a dynamic technology company and entertainment leader.