Responsible AI & Governance Technical Specialist

The role

You will design and implement technical governance frameworks and guidelines to support responsible AI innovation. You will assess risks and partner with cross-functional teams to embed ethical principles into product development lifecycles.

What you will do

• Contribute to long-term strategies for building safe, ethical, and innovative AI products and tools
• Serve as a technical Responsible AI advisor for generative and agentic AI systems
• Engage stakeholders to gather feedback and address AI Governance and Responsible AI technical considerations
• Use AI governance, risk tooling and discovery insights to identify emerging risks
• Experiment hands-on with emerging AI capabilities including agents, MCP servers, tool integrations, APIs, and evaluation frameworks
• Sit on relevant domain boards as a technical specialist
• Conduct ethical and safety risk assessments regarding bias, fairness, robustness, transparency, and societal impact
• Partner with engineers, product managers, designers, and online safety to identify unintended consequences
• Coordinate with Information Security to align AI governance reviews with security requirements
• Contribute to company-wide best practices for responsible AI development and deployment

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in AI Governance, Responsible AI, Corporate Governance, AI safety, AI policy, or a related field
• At minimum, 5 years of experience contributing to or leading cross-functional programs
• Strong technical fluency in modern AI systems, including LLMs, agentic architectures, tool use/function calling, APIs, cloud services, and automation
• Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, or other technical approaches to identifying risks in LLM and agentic systems
• Understanding of agentic and sociotechnical AI risks, including excessive agency, permissions and data access, unintended tool use, human oversight, systemic risk, and emergent behaviors
• Ability to translate technical findings and risks into practical controls, mitigations, and guidance
• Ability to independently drive outcomes across cross-functional teams with minimal supervision
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Ability and curiosity to stay current with emerging AI capabilities, risks, frameworks, and industry developments

Nice to have

• Familiarity with relevant regulations, standards and ethical guidelines (e.g., EU AI Act, OECD Principles, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001)
• Proficiency in producing meaningful visualizations and reports
• Industry experience in tech, gaming or (interactive) entertainment
• Familiarity with MCP or comparable protocols and agent/tool integration frameworks

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• matching 401(k)
• paid time off
• wellness program
• employee discounts for Sony products
• 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. It is a dynamic technology company and an entertainment leader.