Cloud Game Streaming - Systems Engineer

London Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

As part of GDFT, you will design and optimize PlayStation’s real-time game streaming tech. You’ll work on low-latency video paths across capture, encoding, transport and presentation, improving visual quality and reducing end-to-end latency. You’ll collaborate with researchers and engineers to prototype new approaches and validate their impact. This role sits at the intersection of product engineering and R&D, offering opportunities to shape streaming on PlayStation platforms.

Pay / Benefits

flexible and hybrid work
professional development and conference attendance
internal hackathons
cross-regional collaborative projects
travel a few times per year
supportive work environment

Responsibilities

Develop, optimize and maintain low-level C/C++ components in the game streaming stack
Reduce end-to-end streaming latency across frame capture, buffering, encoding, transport and presentation
Tune hardware encoders and apply low-latency encoding techniques
Analyze media pipelines to identify buffering, memory copies and synchronization delays
Use instrumentation to measure behavior and quantify performance changes
Debug issues across user-space, system services and daemons
Prototype and evaluate new approaches for quality, latency and bandwidth efficiency
Collaborate with codec developers and researchers on rate control, FEC and emerging media tech
Contribute findings to design discussions and production solutions
Collaborate across teams to validate streaming tech within platform software
Attend in-person workshops or team events; travel may be required

Key requirements

Proficiency in C and C++
Experience developing native, performance-sensitive software
Experience with real-time video, media pipelines, codecs or embedded multimedia systems
Understanding of video compression concepts and codecs (AVC, HEVC, AV1)
Knowledge of low-latency video encoding concepts (GOP, rate control, quantisation)
Strong debugging, profiling and performance-analysis skills
Ability to investigate complex technical problems with instrumentation
Comfort working in unfamiliar parts of a large system
Experimental mindset with prototyping and evaluation
Ability to discuss findings with senior engineers and decide on production paths