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Sony Interactive Entertainment · 1 week ago

Senior to Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer - Content Moderation and Safety

San Mateo, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$187K/yr - $281K/yr

5+ years exp

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a global leader in entertainment, recognized for its PlayStation products and services. The Senior to Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer will be part of a team focused on ensuring a safe ecosystem for PlayStation users by building and deploying machine learning models aimed at content moderation and safety.

Consumer GoodsMusicVideo Games

Work & Life Balance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build and deploy ML models to detect and offensive content in areas like abuse, and child safety across modalities like text, voice and images

Work with a broad spectrum of state of the art machine learning and deep learning technologies, in the areas of various machine learning problems such as multilingual text classification, language modeling and multi-modal learning

Create metrics and configure A/B testing to evaluate model performance offline and online to inform and convey our impacts to diverse groups of stakeholders

Maintain and produce reusable code according to standard methodologies in Python, Scala or Java with adherence to best practices

Collaborate with cross-functional teams of technical members and non-technical members in architecture, design and code reviews

Qualification

Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingDeep LearningPythonScalaJavaA/B TestingCloud ComputingTensorFlowPyTorchAgile EnvironmentCollaborationDocumentation

Required

Masters degree in CS/Statistics/Data Science, with a specialization in machine learning or equivalent technical degree with experience

5 years + experience in applied machine learning or related fields with strong NLP, statistical and analytical knowledge

3-5 years of prior experience in Trust and Safety or using ML to solve content moderation problems

Experience with Python or Scala or Java

Experience in developing production-level large-scale ML models and data pipelines

Industry work experience in designing and implementing machine learning-based solutions that ideally include: online safety, voice-activated conversational systems, time series forecasting, and A/B testing

Preferred

Prior work in content moderation ML, security, fraud detection, or adversarial ML

Prior experience working with Computer vision and voice-related tasks

Proficient with Machine learning frameworks such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, MLlib

Experience with Spark, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Prometheus

Familiarity with standard methodologies in large-scale Deep Learning training/Inference

Experience in cloud-based environments, such as AWS

Experience working with custom ML platforms

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Matching 401(k)

Paid time off

Wellness program

Coveted employee discounts for Sony products

Bonus package

Company

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment is responsible for the PlayStation brand and family of products and services.

Founded in 1993

San Mateo, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.sie.com

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