Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote from the UK

Company

hirify.global creates PlayStation hardware, network services, and entertainment experiences for a global audience.

What you will do

• Build and maintain engine and editor plugins, runtime SDKs, and services integrating LLMs and related AI systems into game clients, servers, and build tools.
• Develop, profile, optimize, and debug performant, memory-aware C++ for PC and console builds.
• Design versioned C++/C, gRPC, and HTTP APIs with telemetry and backward compatibility.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for game builds and tools, including artifact packaging, nightly and regression suites, and distributed builds.
• Automate functional and integration QA through engine test frameworks, headless runs, CI gating, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with studio engineering, technical art, design, and QA teams while documenting patterns, creating sample projects, and delivering internal training.

Requirements

• At least five years of production software development experience with modern C++ and strong knowledge of memory management, concurrency, performance, and debugging.
• Experience shipping tools or runtime features in AAA game engines, including plugins, modules, asset and build pipelines, and editor/runtime integrations.
• Experience integrating LLMs or other ML services in production, including prompt design, evaluation, safety, and telemetry.
• Experience implementing engine-level automated functional and integration testing with headless execution and CI gating.
• Experience with large code and asset repositories, Perforce, and Git.
• Remote work is limited to the UK.

Nice to have

• Networking and service integrations for game backends using gRPC or HTTP, with telemetry and observability.
• SDK and plugin packaging for multiple studios, semantic versioning, and migration tooling.
• Knowledge of console platform requirements, certification workflows, security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely from the UK while partnering with multiple PlayStation Studios teams.
• Contribute to shared libraries, engineering standards, and best practices for AI development tools.
• Inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace with consideration for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.