2026 Software Engineer Intern (Platform)

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 companys 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 Companys Most Innovative Companies TIMEs 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 FunandIs 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.

The Role

Location: 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 Nexs 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 Table

Depending on your background and interests you may attach to one of three divisions. Youll receive mentorship contribute to real product features and ship improvements that impact users worldwide.

• Core Technology
  • Purpose: Advance Nexs core technologies to enable exceptional and meaningful motionbased experiences.
  • What you might do:
    • Build and extend our Motion Development Kit (MDK).
    • Prototype and build CV/ML features with realtime 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 Playgrounds ondevice 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.

Should Have

• 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.

Nice To Have

• 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.

We Offer

• 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 inSan Jose California USAandHongKong. Learn more about us at encourage applications even if you dont meet more than 50% of the requirements we believe that experience comes in many forms!