Visiting Engineer: Gesture Based Mobile Games
About The Position
Mobile input is stale — tap and swipe have been the default for 15 years. This role is to build a new category of mobile games controlled by real-time hand movement through the phone camera, starting with a gesture-driven game that's immediately fun and obviously physical. You will build a playable game where gesture interaction is the core mechanic, not a novelty input mode pasted on top. You will also build a low-latency recognition loop that maps hand movement into responsive gameplay, and handle calibration, feedback, and fail-state handling so the game remains usable in messy real-world environments. The goal is to create a technical base that could expand into a reusable gesture-recognition platform over time.
Requirements
- Experience in computer vision, on-device ML, pose or gesture recognition, or mobile game development.
- Strong engineering ability across inference pipelines, UX responsiveness, and real-time system constraints.
- A feel for interaction design and what makes a game mechanic fun rather than technically clever.
- The ability to ship rough but playable prototypes quickly.
- You know how to use AI coding assistants and modern AI tools to accelerate implementation without shipping brittle game logic.
- US work authorization. We are unable to sponsor visas for this role.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Unity, Unreal, CoreML, TFLite, MediaPipe, AR, or motion capture systems.
- Experience shipping mobile games or highly interactive consumer products.
- Experience optimizing real-time pipelines for noisy camera input.
Responsibilities
- Own the prototype across game loop, recognition pipeline, UX feedback, and on-device performance.
- Make smart tradeoffs between model quality, latency, battery, and actual game feel.
- Test the experience quickly with real players and learn where delight or frustration shows up.
- Build the first product wedge while keeping an eye on what could become platform IP.
- Work with AI Fund's build team on gameplay scope, technical feasibility, and expansion paths.
Benefits
- $10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total).
- Founder-level role with meaningful equity upside if the idea works.
- Gain awesome building experience working alongside Andrew Ng.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
