Staff Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (AI): Building AI-powered tools and integrations that plug directly into game engines, editors, clients, and backend services with an accent on delivering high-quality C++ integrations across proprietary studio engines. Focus on implementing production LLM integrations, collaborating with studio engineering, and influencing standards and tech choices for AI in the development stack.

Location: This position can be completed remotely from either The UK, or The US.

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in entertainment, producing the PlayStation family of products and services.

What you will do

• Build and maintain engine/editor plugins, runtime SDKs, and services that integrate AI into game clients, servers, and build tools.
• Ship performant, memory-aware C++ by profiling, optimizing, and debugging across PC/console builds.
• Design stable API surfaces for game teams with versioning, telemetry, and backward compatibility.
• Stand up CI/CD for game builds and tools, including artifact packaging and nightly/regression suites.
• Automate QA for tooling and in-engine features using engine test frameworks and headless runs.
• Collaborate with studio engineering, tech art, design, and QA to land integrations across varied codebases and pipelines.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience building production software in modern C++ with strong fundamentals in memory management, concurrency, performance, and debugging.
• Experience shipping tools or runtime features in AAA engines, including work on plugins/modules, asset and build pipelines, and editor/runtime integration.
• Experience delivering features or tooling that integrate with LLMs or other ML services, and understanding prompt design, evaluation, safety, and telemetry for production usage.
• Experience implementing engine-level automated testing, including headless execution and CI gating.
• Comfortable working with large code/asset repositories and with both Perforce and Git.
• Ability to communicate clearly across disciplines and translate diverse studio requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience building networking/service integrations for game backends and implementing telemetry/observability.
• Experience packaging SDKs/plugins for multiple studios and managing semantic versioning and migration tooling.
• Understanding of console platform requirements and certification workflows.
• Familiarity with security, privacy, and responsible-AI practices in production systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity.
• Passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play are encouraged.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.