Senior Software Engineer (Applied AI & Streaming)

Location: Aliso Viejo, California, United States; hybrid working policy applies.

Salary: $177,300–$265,900 USD base pay per year, with possible bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global develops PlayStation hardware, network services, and interactive entertainment experiences for more than 100 million players.

What you will do

• Design, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities across a real-time streaming platform and player experience.
• Apply inference and agents to performance, player engagement, personalization, and accessibility.
• Build and extend the platform in C++ while shaping future technologies and architecture.
• Develop production AI infrastructure, including evaluation, telemetry, guardrails, fallbacks, and latency and cost controls.
• Use AI-native workflows, coding agents, automation, and rapid experimentation to improve existing streaming codebases.
• Collaborate with engineering partners across streaming, platform, and cloud to move prototypes into production.

Requirements

• Senior-level software engineering experience owning complex systems end to end.
• Strong professional C++ experience in production codebases.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying production agents or AI-powered features.
• Understanding of context and prompt design, tool use, orchestration, memory, retrieval, model selection, and inference placement.
• Fluency with AI-native engineering workflows, strong product judgment, ownership, communication, and adaptability.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Python, Rust, low-latency or on-device inference, model optimization, or GPU experience.
• Real-time media, game streaming, graphics, video, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or production platform experience.
• Conversational or agentic experience for games or interactive products.
• Linux or Windows systems experience.
• Japanese language or cross-cultural collaboration experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a small, focused, senior engineering team on real-time AI problems.
• Own work from prototype through production and help shape the AI strategy.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and Sony product discounts.
• Hybrid working policy and possible bonus package.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage, including criminal checks for some roles.