AI Engineer

Joining our DX (Digital Transformation) AI & Automation team, you will turn machine learning and Generative AI ideas into robust, production-ready solutions that reshape how Sony Europe works and makes decisions. Side by side with other data scientists and engineers, you will own AI initiatives end-to-end: discovering high-value opportunities, experimenting fast, and scaling the projects that make a visible difference to the business.

This is an applied, end-to-end role for people who want to move beyond experimental demos. You will work directly with internal customers and colleagues across Sony Europe to deliver production-grade AI solutions solving real business challenges.

You will:

• Partner with team members across DX and business functions throughout Sony to identify high-value AI opportunities and shape concrete projects.
• Lead the AI lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and iteration, according to MLOps/LLMOps methodologies.
• Work closely with IT, software engineering and infrastructure teams to design scalable, compliant, production-grade inference setups and end-to-end solutions.
• Define and track success metrics for AI solutions, evaluate model and system performance (including user feedback), and iterate to improve business impact.
• Typical projects include building AI agents to assist internal teams and external customers or to automate business processes.

You will bring:

• University degree or equivalent practical experience in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Engineering or similar);
• Professional experience as a data scientist, AI engineer, software developer or similar role, in building and deploying AI Agent applications.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, plus experience in using agentic AI frameworks (e.g. LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, or similar)
• Hands-on experience taking ML/AI solutions from PoC to production on cloud platforms (ideally Azure) using MLOps/LLMOps standard methodologies.
• Good communication and customer management skills.
• Excellent organisation and time-management skills, with experience prioritising and delivering multiple projects.
• Fluent in English.

Preferred qualifications

• Understanding of data privacy, regulatory constraints (e.g. EU AI Act) and responsible AI principles, and ability to design solutions with these constraints in mind.
• Experience delivering AI/ML into real business workflows, with first-hand exposure to challenges such as change management, user adoption, data quality and integrating with legacy systems.

Your new office

Budapest

Based at the Budapest office, you will enjoy a modern, vibrant and diverse working environment with lots of social and charity events to be part of and enjoy a sense of belonging. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of healthy options, a café, and free coffee/tea in the office kitchens. The office is easily reachable by public transportation. You can enjoy your lunchbreak outside in the garden or have a walk by the Danube. If you like to ride, we have bike storage in the building with a changing room and we also have a MOL BUBI bike docking station in front of the office building.

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.

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