Sr Software Engineer; Audio , San Mateo, CA

Overview

Play Station isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

Play Station also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

We have an exciting opportunity at Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Play Station). Our software production organization seeks a software engineer for our Platform Audio team. This team is a trailblazer in audio technology. Efforts here will contribute to the development of system libraries used for both our current and next generation Play Station products. You will drive the design and implementation of technology used for 3D audio, hardware DSP, and virtual reality.

The software you develop here is the foundation of an SDK for industry leading game and content developers and will change the way audio is used worldwide. If this is you, please apply!

• Drive algorithm development and implementation in spatial audio, psychoacoustics, and other audio related fields including HRTF (capture, synthesis, personalization), Ambisonics, loudspeaker rendering, and more
• Develop requirements based on research or user input and assist with platform integration
• Systems level multi-threaded programming and debugging using C and C++
• Collaborate with international counterparts to contribute to Play Station’s Tempest 3D Audio technology and our greater audio ecosystem

• 5 years or more of digital signal processing experience
• Experience as a technical contributor to a project involving spatial audio
• Solid understanding of basic acoustic and psychoacoustic principles

• Basic source control experience (git)
• Knowledge of audio production tools and software (e.g. Reaper, VST Development)
• Embedded systems development
• Graphics or GPU programming experience
• ML/AI modeling and training experience
• #LI-RG1

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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$193,300 - $289,900 USD

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