Staff Product Engineer

Job Description

Staff Product Engineer

San Mateo, CA

Description:

This position is responsible for defining and driving the architecture of future PlayStation and PlayStation ecosystem product features and components! In this highly visible and multi-functional role, you will be a key bridge between multiple engineering organizations inside and outside of SIE.

The successful applicant is:
• A strong engineer with a computer architecture background, a deep understanding of both hardware and software, and the ability to weigh tradeoffs between different specialized system areas.
• A self-motivator with initiative and a track record of driving key product features or components from concept definition through customer ship and sustaining development.
• An excellent communicator, presenter, persuader, and negotiator.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and making things happen.
• Quick to understand, promote, and own the productization of new technologies.
• Used to working with remote and international engineering teams.
• A strong troubleshooter and hands-on fixer.
• Not necessarily always right, but always committed to make things right.
• A gamer at heart despite being an engineer in mind.

Responsibilities:
• Own systems architecture of new product features and/or components.
• Perform system scoping, resourcing, performance, and customer experience analysis.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand their constraints and goals.
• Analyze, recommend, and explain sound strategic decisions when faced with uncertainty and/or disagreements.
• Build and evaluate feature/component concepts to explore architecture paths as needed.
• Present proposals, status, and decisions to executives.

Experience/Education:
• 10+ years of proven experience in gaming and/or consumer software and hardware products.
• Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent fields.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gw7kek-18-223-32-230-42 in your application.