Senior Rendering API Engineer - GPU Graphics Stack

United Kingdom, London

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

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.

About the Advanced Technology Group

The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is a part of Foundational Systems and Experiences Engineering (FSEE) within the Platform Business Group.Established over 20 years ago as part ofPlayStation®’sfirst-party game development studios, ATG has always focused on helping game developers get the most out of PlayStation®hardware-a mission that continues to this day.As a team, weare responsibleforlarge partsof thegraphicssoftware stack used by all PlayStation®games,andcollaborate withleadingengineering teams worldwide, from game developers to hardware vendors, to deliver key platform technologies.

Whatyou’llbe doing

• You will be working on thecurrent and futurerendering APIsused by PlayStation games, as well as the hardware underpinning them.
• You will design and implement features that enable efficient game development, push GPU programming forward, and create a healthy platform.
• You willobserveindustry trends, understanding of – and empathy for – our customers, and business needs as the foundation of your decision making.
• You will help shape the path of the PlayStation graphics stack going forward.
• You will collaboratewith the platform software and hardware teams, as well as game developers.
• You will often take the role as the game-developer advocate when working with the platform teams, or the role as the platform-team advocate when working with game developers.

This is asenior position at the core of PlayStation GPU technology with an unusual degree of influence on future of console graphics -programming .ATG is granted a high degree of trust and autonomy in shaping the graphics software stack and we are looking for peoplewho are passionate about carrying this forward.You will not be spending your time in committee meetingsor writing endless proposals, this is very much an engineering role where your primary role is todeterminewhat needs to be implemented, how best to implement it and tothen sit down,code, debug. We believe that this practical focus is crucial in building up the skill, experience, and insightrequiredto make the large-scale and long-term decisions we have been entrusted with.

What we are looking for

• Experience and interest in low-level graphics architecture and engineering.
• Experience writing rendering code on top of multiple existing rendering APIs.
• Experience writing rendering code on console.
• The ability to keep an eye on the big picture, even whendeep in the weeds.
• Aneagernessto learn and to take responsibility for thelong run.

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