Senior Machine Learning Engineer

• We are looking for an independent, dedicated Senior ML Engineer to join the Visual Computing Group (VCG) and contribute to redefining the world of game play and live streaming via advanced R&D
• VCG’s mission is to design and deploy advanced neural networks and machine learning (ML) for game rendering and streaming systems of SIE that exceed the state-of-the-art in runtime efficiency, visual quality and latency
• Develop and improve core generative models for graphics and video processing for a variety of applications, such as live video streaming, game rendering, etc
• Research and prototyping of new methods for graphics or video enhancement, and data generation pipelines from generative models
• Collaborate with team members on drafting publications and patent submissions
• Participate and assist the team in core R&D work with other teams within Sony Interactive Entertainment

Evidence of leading technical developments by at least 1 research publication in a top-tier conference like CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH or similar

PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics or a related field, or equivalent skills evidenced by work experience in the specific domain of the post(i) neural network architectures, evidenced (for example) by knowledge of how to formulate and test advanced loss functions in neural network design

Solid background in one or more of the following:(iii) some experience in training, validation and evaluation of deep neural network models on large datasets, evidenced by experience in using Python libraries like HDF5 or similar(ii) design and test of advanced convolutional, recurrent, transformer-based, diffusion-based or other neural network architectures in a task‑specific manner5+ years of experience in demonstrable research experience in industry or academia

Strong background in:
Tensor Flow or PyTorch;
Python and packages/libraries related to computer vision or graphics; evidenced by the development of advanced applications in image/video/graphics processing or computer vision (minimum of 3 years of experience for ML engineer, minimum 5 years for Senior ML engineer),Publications, e.g. in top‑tier conferences and journals: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, conferences like IEEE CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or similar

Some theoretical understanding of the graphics pipeline, including coordinate transformations between frames of reference, P  materials, rasterization, lighting, and ray tracing

Experience in image processing theory and methods, evidenced by the development of practical designs in this area

Some experience with 3D engines such as Unreal or Unity; in particular, generation of datasets, extraction of G-buffers, motion vectors, etc