Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.
Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.
This October, Nex is hosting a series of on-campus talks, offering an inside look at our company - where we’ve been, where we’re headed, and how we’re growing. From product innovation and design thinking to company culture and exciting job opportunities, these sessions are designed to share how we work, what we value, and how we’re building the future of active play.
The series will feature David Lee, Nex CEO & Co-founder, who will be speaking at HKU, CUHK, and HKUST.
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/QuUuUxDeoe3hbz3G9
The RoleLocation: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time Internship (June 1, 2026 - August 31, 2026)
As our Software Engineer Intern (Platform), you will help shape the future of interactive physical gaming and realize Nex’s very bold vision: “Create the best motion games for hundreds of millions of people to play on”. You will collaborate directly with the leadership team and product teams across Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, gaining hands-on experience, mentorship, and opportunities to grow your technical skills. At Nex, we value creativity, curiosity, and a passion for innovation.
What You Will Bring to the TableDepending on your background and interests, you may attach to one of three divisions. You’ll receive mentorship, contribute to real product features, and ship improvements that impact users worldwide.
- Core Technology
- Purpose: Advance Nex’s core technologies to enable exceptional and meaningful motion‑based experiences.
- What you might do:
- Build and extend our Motion Development Kit (MDK).
- Prototype and build CV/ML features with real‑time constraints.
- Explore camera systems and other sensing capabilities across devices.
- Develop profiling, benchmarking, and automation tools for core pipelines.
- Platform Software Engineering
- Purpose: Develop and maintain Playground’s on‑device and cloud software for end users and business needs.
- What you might do:
- Develop new features for PlayOS, and companion mobile applications.
- Experiment new architectures for cloud services support Playground and business operations.
- Prototyping telemetry, observability, experimentation, and diagnostics system
- Develop APIs and services that support apps, games, and partner integrations.
- Build developer tooling, test automation infrastructures, CI/CD workflows, and DevOps automation.
- Hardware Engineering
- Purpose: Guide hardware development and push technology boundaries by exploring, evaluating, and validating current and emerging hardware technologies, including SoC platforms, sensors, I/O devices, and other critical subsystems.
- What you might do:
- Explore and evaluate current and emerging hardware technologies for Playground.
- Design and conduct experiments to assess hardware reliability and performance.
- Develop novel solutions and prototypes to demonstrate concepts and feasibility.
- Passion for building scalable, maintainable, high-performance software.
- Curiosity for innovations at the intersection of physical and digital worlds.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a learning mindset.
- Experience in ML-based CV development.
- Understanding of microservices, serverless and API designs.
- Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, or automation tools.
- Experience in hardware prototyping.
- Enthusiastic about games, or feeling excited about game development.
- Love being active and healthy. Passionate about helping others do the same.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
- Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
- Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field
Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!
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What We Do
Nex is helping families reconnect with the joy of movement through fun, social, and interactive content that’s accessible to all ages. Its award-winning Nex Playground console, launched in December 2023, uses cutting-edge AI, mobile and vision technologies to merge digital and physical worlds, immersing players in the experience using their natural body movement. Nex Playground games range from original sports and fitness titles, to educational games and titles in collaboration with Hasbro and Sesame Workshop.
Since its founding, Nex has been recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has been awarded the prestigious Apple Design Award. Nex Playground is also kidSAFE+ COPPA certified, highlighting the company’s firm stance on privacy and safety for kids and families. To learn more, visit https://www.nex.inc or follow the company on Instagram and Facebook.
See current job openings at https://www.nex.inc/careers
