Senior Software Engineer, Audio Validation Systems

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>United Kingdom, London</strong></span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’re the company behind PlayStation, delivering cutting-edge hardware, software, and network services to players and game creators around the world.</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our role is to create the technologies, tools, and experiences that help developers build the best games on PlayStation. We work at the intersection of platform engineering, developer experience, and interactive entertainment, pushing the boundaries of play through high-quality SDKs, systems, and tools.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Role overview</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We’re looking for a <strong>Senior Software Engineer</strong> to build the tools and automated systems we use to validate audio technologies in the PlayStation SDK.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This role sits within SDK Quality Engineering, but the work is primarily software engineering. You’ll design and build audio analysis tools, automated validation pipelines, regression detection systems, and developer-facing diagnostics that help engineers understand whether audio behaviour is correct, stable, and release-ready.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You’ll work closely with Audio SDK engineers and platform teams to turn complex audio quality problems into measurable, repeatable engineering systems.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The right person will have strong C/C++ and Python skills, practical digital audio knowledge, and experience building reliable tools, automation, or analysis systems. Previous testing or QE experience is helpful, but we’re most interested in engineers who can write production-quality code, reason about audio behaviour, and build systems that other engineers depend on.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The team</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The SDK Quality Engineering team is part of the Foundational Systems and Experiences Engineering group in London.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We work on low-level SDKs and core platform technologies used by game developers building PlayStation games. This role focuses on audio technologies within the PlayStation SDK, including libraries, tools, runtime behaviour, and platform-level audio features.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You’ll work close to both engineering and quality. The goal is to make audio behaviour measurable, regressions easier to detect, and release decisions better informed.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design, build, and maintain audio validation tools for PlayStation SDK audio libraries and technologies.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Write C/C++ and Python code to analyse audio output, detect regressions, compare SDK versions, and validate expected behaviour.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build automated systems for repeatable audio quality measurement, including signal analysis, spectral comparison, latency checks, conformance checks, and regression detection.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create tooling that gives engineers clear evidence when audio behaviour changes.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work with Audio SDK engineers to understand features, risks, expected behaviour, and testability needs.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Integrate audio validation into CI, build pipelines, reporting, dashboards, and release workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Investigate complex audio issues using debugging, data analysis, signal processing, and collaboration with domain experts.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own technical areas end to end, from requirements and design through implementation, documentation, maintenance, and support.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Help define standards for maintainable, reproducible, and trustworthy audio validation tooling.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mentor engineers and share knowledge across SDK QE and Audio SDK teams.</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What we’re looking for</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Essential</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong professional software engineering experience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong C/C++ development skills.</span></li> <li style="font-si