Jobs at Nex

Create and implement real-time visual effects in Unity, including gameplay feedback, environmental effects, shaders, and dynamic character visuals. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to improve game feel, optimize performance, troubleshoot rendering issues, and develop tools and scripts that streamline workflows. The role requires strong technical knowledge of Unity rendering systems, shader creation, C# scripting, visual timing, and real-time performance optimization.

Lead Nex’s marketing creative direction from concept through launch, shaping campaigns across paid media, social, retail, launches, and partnerships. Develop concepts, art direct production, maintain a high creative standard, and provide hands-on feedback and execution. Build and coach the creative team, improve review processes, and partner with senior stakeholders to connect creative work to business outcomes. Operate independently in a fast-moving environment while strengthening Nex’s distinctive, playful brand.

Creates and leads visual design across websites, social media, email, retail materials, Amazon, and product launches. Develops cohesive campaign assets, manages creative workflows and production timelines, coordinates agencies and vendors, and collaborates with marketing and product teams. The role requires strong typography, color, layout, digital, retail, and campaign design expertise, along with a portfolio demonstrating broad creative work.

The Senior Graphic Designer will create visual assets for websites, social media, email campaigns, retail materials, Amazon, and product launches. The role leads visual strategy, manages campaign workflows and production, coordinates internal teams, agencies, and vendors, and ensures timely, high-quality deliverables. Success requires strong design expertise, creative judgment, collaboration, project management, and the ability to manage multiple initiatives across digital, retail, and product launch channels.

Leads Nex’s marketing creative direction from concept through launch, setting a high creative bar across campaigns, paid media, social, retail, launches, and partnerships. Develops memorable concepts, art directs multi-medium production, coaches creative talent, improves review processes, and partners strategically with business leaders. The role requires hands-on creative involvement, strong conceptual judgment, business awareness, and the ability to build a distinctive, high-performing brand in a fast-moving environment.

Designers will audit game interfaces for localization readiness, adapt Figma layouts and components for multilingual content, implement approved translations in Unity, and perform visual QA across languages and builds. Responsibilities include managing text expansion, typography, wrapping, dynamic sizing, script-specific requirements, localized assets, and culturally appropriate visuals. The role also contributes reusable localization components, checklists, templates, and design-system guidance while collaborating with engineering, QA, production, content operations, and localization partners.

Owns engagement and member experience across Facebook, Reddit, and Circle communities. Builds relationships with families, advocates, beta testers, and super users; develops customer stories and advocacy pathways; manages moderators, workflows, and guidelines; and produces Voice of Community insights and recommendations. Partners cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Support, and Research to turn customer feedback into actionable improvements.

Supports the CEO, Chief of Staff, and senior leadership through complex scheduling, travel coordination, product review logistics, tracking systems, confidential information management, and cross-functional follow-through. Owns San Jose workplace administration, including facilities liaison work, office supplies, vendors, events, assets, procurement, insurance renewals, and operational projects. Requires strong judgment, organization, discretion, adaptability, and hands-on execution in a fast-paced technology startup.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze large-scale customer data, investigate behavioral questions, design and automate studies, and translate findings into actionable recommendations. The role includes maintaining analytics frameworks, documenting methodologies, writing white papers, and communicating insights across the company. Candidates should be independent, comfortable with ambiguity, and experienced with SQL and Redshift. Python or R, machine learning, Spark, A/B testing, and cross-functional experience are preferred.

Create and execute QA plans and test cases for motion-based games and the Nex Playground. Perform functional, usability, regression, localization, compatibility, and device testing across varied real-world conditions. Validate responsiveness, motion recognition, occlusion handling, onboarding, and player experience. Document detailed bugs, collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot hardware and TV setups, and identify product risks early.

Build and ship platform software for Nex Playground across PlayOS, device software, backend services, cloud infrastructure, APIs, developer tools, and delivery automation. Interns will design, implement, test, document, measure, and launch production-ready projects while debugging across device, network, backend, and cloud boundaries. The role includes mentorship, collaboration with engineering teams, and opportunities to improve performance, reliability, telemetry, and software quality.

Develop and evaluate machine learning models for computational perception and interaction. Build datasets, experiments, training and evaluation tools, and optimize models for real-time, on-device inference. Collaborate with ML researchers and software engineers to prototype computer vision, audio, sensor-fusion, or multimodal technologies on Nex Playground. Analyze failure modes, communicate findings, and own a mentored research project contributing to future products.

Develop sports and active-play games for Nex Playground, including motion controls, physics simulation, multiplayer synchronization, prototypes, and production features. Collaborate with engineers, designers, and artists through implementation, testing, playtesting, code reviews, and polish. Help research new game concepts and create tools that improve development workflows.

Software Engineer Interns will develop features for production games, including game architecture, UI, UX, game logic, motion-control algorithms, and internal tools. They will participate in game design, prototype and test mechanics, conduct research, create a game, and present demos. The role emphasizes learning from senior engineers, writing maintainable code, troubleshooting effectively, collaborating with designers, and applying creativity to interactive motion-gaming experiences.

Build real-time software for motion tracking, cameras, audio, and ML inference. Develop tools for dataset preparation and ML model training, evaluation, optimization, and deployment. Improve reliability through visualization, debugging, performance analysis, and automated testing. Collaborate with software engineers, ML researchers, and game teams to integrate experimental technologies into interactive products.

Build tools and libraries that improve game development and publishing for Nex Playground. Collaborate with game engineers and producers to streamline workflows from brainstorming through deployment, address developer bottlenecks, improve content delivery processes, and explore new technologies. The internship runs June 1 through August 31, 2027, in Hong Kong.

Drives the visual direction of motion games and digital experiences across Nex’s platform. Establishes visual language, style guides, benchmarks, and design review processes while ensuring polished, consistent execution. Collaborates with Engineering, Publishing, and other teams, contributes hands-on design, and provides creative leadership through feedback and coaching. The role balances art direction, craft excellence, innovation, and execution across multiple projects.

Develop and sustain electronic hardware for connected consumer products from prototype through mass production. Responsibilities include PCBA development and bring-up, requirements and verification, JDM/ODM partner leadership, technology and component evaluation, manufacturing and field failure analysis, root-cause investigation, corrective actions, and reliability, safety, and compliance oversight. The role also contributes to future product architecture and improves engineering standards, lab practices, and technical capabilities.

Build and lead Nex’s legal operations infrastructure, serving as the intake point for legal requests and implementing the company’s first CLM system. Manage contract workflows, templates, playbooks, governance records, entity administration, trademark licensing, insurance, outside counsel, legal metrics, knowledge management, and compliance support. Partner with the General Counsel, attorneys, Finance, People, Product, Supply Chain, and Trust & Safety teams to streamline legal processes and improve self-service.

Serve as Nex’s primary product legal advisor across privacy, children’s data protection, consumer protection, AI regulation, IP, and product safety. Own the privacy program, including COPPA compliance, consent flows, data practices, and regulatory responses. Advise cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle, create legal review processes and governance frameworks, develop self-service playbooks, and manage outside counsel as needed. The role will build and potentially lead Nex’s product legal function.