Senior Software Engineer - AI & Agentic Architecture
Sony Interactive Entertainment
United States, Aliso Viejo · USA-CA-Aliso Viejo · USD 177,300-265,900 · 6+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- United States, Aliso Viejo · USA-CA-Aliso Viejo
- Salary
- USD 177,300-265,900 · Base salary
About the role
- This senior individual-contributor role focuses on designing and shipping agentic systems, developer tooling, and reusable platform capabilities.
- The engineer will collaborate with security, product, and engineering teams to improve productivity across Sony Interactive Entertainment using agentic frameworks, SDKs, and APIs.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production-quality agentic applications including multi-agent orchestration and subagent delegation.
- Design Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool and resource interfaces for secure access to backend systems.
- Engineer prompts for reliable structured output and build evaluation frameworks to improve quality.
- Manage context across long documents, multi-turn conversations, and multi-agent handoffs.
- Configure and extend Codex/Claude Code for team-wide use.
- Integrate agentic development into CI/CD pipelines for automated code review and test generation.
- Build and maintain MCP server integrations to extend agent-native development capabilities.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify high-value opportunities for AI-assisted development.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture discussions and code reviews.
- Mentor engineers on agentic design patterns, prompt engineering, and agent-native development practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant work with AI/LLM-powered or agentic applications.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, Rust, or C++.
- Solid engineering fundamentals including API design, testing, debugging, and code review.
- Practical, production-grade experience with agentic SDKs/harnesses, MCP, and LLMs.
- Experience designing MCP tool/resource interfaces and reasoning about reliability in multi-agent systems.
- Demonstrated experience integrating AI into CI/CD and developer workflows.
- Ability to work in ambiguous problem spaces and make pragmatic engineering decisions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience mentoring and leading through influence.
Preferred qualifications
- Expertise in agentic architecture, MCP integration, Codex/Claude Code configuration, and prompt engineering.
- Experience building multi-agent research or customer support systems, or structured data extraction pipelines.
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps.
- Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and AI evaluation frameworks.
- Contributions to open-source projects involving AI, agentic systems, or developer tooling.
- Strong systems thinking regarding dependencies and tradeoffs across the stack.
- 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
- Bonus package
Workplace
- Hybrid working policy applies.
- Role is based in Aliso Viejo, California.
Skills
- Java
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- C++
- MCP
- LLMs
- Codex
- Claude Code
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
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- Terraform
- GitOps
