Responsible AI & Governance Technical Specialist
Sony Interactive Entertainment
United States, San Mateo · USA-CA-San Mateo · USD 132,800-199,200 · Hybrid · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- United States, San Mateo · USA-CA-San Mateo
- Salary
- USD 132,800-199,200 · Base salary
About the role
- Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior Responsible AI & Governance Technical Specialist to help ensure our AI products and technologies are developed and deployed ethically, safely, and in alignment with our values.
- In this role, you will operate at the intersection of modern AI technology, policy, and ethics, designing and implementing technical governance frameworks, guidelines, and best practices.
- You will collaborate across engineering, product, information security, legal, and business teams to embed responsible AI principles into product development lifecycles.
Responsibilities
- 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, helping teams assess architectures, tool integrations, MCP implementations, data flows, permissions, autonomy, and appropriate human oversight and guardrails
- Engage stakeholders across the organization to gather feedback and address AI Governance and Responsible AI technical considerations
- Use AI governance, risk tooling and discovery insights to identify emerging risks and support appropriate remediation and technical solutions
- Experiment hands-on with emerging AI capabilities, including agents, MCP servers, tool integrations, APIs, and evaluation frameworks, to understand their capabilities and risks and translate findings into practical governance guidance
- Sit on relevant domain boards as a technical specialist, partnering closely with Product and Engineering
- Conduct ethical and safety risk assessments, advising teams on mitigation strategies related to bias, fairness, robustness, transparency, and societal impact
- Partner with engineers, product managers, designers, online safety and more, to proactively identify unintended consequences and emerging risks of AI
- Coordinate with Information Security and relevant technical teams to align AI governance reviews and risk assessments with security requirements and technical controls
- Contribute to company-wide best practices for responsible AI development and deployment, including AI literacy materials and case studies
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in AI Governance, Responsible AI, Corporate Governance, AI safety, AI policy, or a related field, with meaningful experience evaluating AI technologies and systems
- At minimum, 5 years of experience contributing to or leading cross-functional programs from strategy through operational implementation, partnering with product, engineering, legal, security, and operations teams
- 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 for engineering, product, and business teams
- Ability to independently drive outcomes across cross-functional teams with minimal supervision
- Strong analytical and communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to challenge assumptions and navigate ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
- Ability and curiosity to stay current with emerging AI capabilities, risks, frameworks, and industry developments, particularly within technology, entertainment, and gaming
Preferred qualifications
- Hands-on experience working with or evaluating agentic AI systems; familiarity with MCP or comparable protocols and agent/tool integration frameworks strongly preferred
- 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, and effectively presenting technical results to diverse audiences
- Industry experience in tech, gaming or (interactive) entertainment
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- matching 401(k)
- paid time off
- wellness program
- coveted employee discounts for Sony products
- bonus package
Workplace
- Hybrid working policy may apply to base pay range variation
Skills
- LLMs
- APIs
- Cloud Services
- Automation
- MCP Servers
- Evaluation Frameworks
- AI Red Teaming
- Adversarial Testing
