Senior Software Engineer - AI & Agentic Architecture

The role

This senior individual-contributor role involves designing and shipping agentic systems, developer tooling, and reusable platform capabilities. You will build production-quality agentic applications and integrate AI into developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate production-quality agentic applications.
• Design Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool and resource interfaces.
• Engineer prompts for reliable structured output and build evaluation frameworks.
• Manage context across documents, conversations, and multi-agent handoffs.
• Configure and extend Codex/Claude Code for team-wide use.
• Integrate agentic development into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain MCP server integrations.
• Identify high-value opportunities for AI-assisted development.
• Partner with engineering teams for discovery and prototyping.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, and mentoring.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant hands-on work building and operating AI/LLM-powered or agentic applications.
• Strong programming skills (Java, Python, Go, Rust, or C++).
• Solid engineering fundamentals: API design, testing, debugging, code review, maintainable code.
• Practical, production-grade experience with agentic SDKs/harnesses, MCP, and LLMs.
• Experience designing MCP tool/resource interfaces and reasoning about tool selection, error handling, and reliability in multi-agent systems.
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI into CI/CD and developer workflows.
• Ability to work in ambiguous problem spaces, evaluate tradeoffs, and make pragmatic engineering decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience mentoring and leading through influence.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Demonstrated expertise across agentic architecture, MCP integration, Codex/Claude Code configuration, prompt engineering, and context management.
• Experience building multi-agent research or customer support systems, or structured data extraction pipelines.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps in support of AI/agentic infrastructure.
• Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and AI evaluation frameworks.
• Contributions to open-source projects involving AI, agentic systems, or developer tooling.
• Strong systems thinking.
• A track record of adapting quickly to new AI tools, models, and frameworks.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• matching 401(k)
• paid time off
• wellness program
• employee discounts for Sony products
• may be eligible for a bonus package

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage (which may include criminal background checks).

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.