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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.\nNex 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.\nNex employees may be expected to collaborate with colleagues across different time zones. Depending on the role and location, occasional travel may also be required for company events, external meetings, and other business-related activities.\nImportant Notice: To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.\nLocation: Hong Kong\nType: Full Time Internship (June 1, 2027 - August 31, 2027)\nThe Role\nThe Core Technology team develops the technologies that allow Nex Playground to use cameras, microphones, and other sensors to understand player movement and interactions in real time.\nAs our Software Engineer Intern (ML Research, Core Technology), you will explore and develop machine learning methods that expand what Nex Playground can perceive and understand. You may work on computer vision, audio, sensor fusion, or other sensing problems, taking ideas from research hypotheses through experimentation, evaluation, optimization, and working prototypes.\nYou will collaborate with ML researchers and software engineers to build datasets and experimental workflows, evaluate ideas rigorously, and demonstrate promising technologies under real-world and on-device constraints. You will receive hands-on mentorship while owning a meaningful research project that contributes to our future products and technical direction.\nWhat You Will Do\nDevelop and evaluate ML models and algorithms for computational perception and interaction.\nDesign rigorous experiments, improve datasets, compare approaches, and understand failure modes.\nBuild training and evaluation tools, and optimize promising models for real-time, on-device inference.\nCollaborate with researchers and engineers to prototype technologies on Nex Playground and communicate your findings.\nShould Have\nMust be currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at an accredited college or university.\nStrong interest in machine learning and enthusiasm for learning new methods and tools.\nSolid mathematical fundamentals and comfort with quantitative reasoning.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills.\nProgramming experience in any language.\nA curious, systematic approach to learning through experimentation.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\nNice To Have\nExperience with Python or familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or another ML framework.\nInterested in computer vision, audio processing, sensor fusion, or multimodal learning.\nInterested in model optimization, on-device inference, GPUs, NPUs, or resource-constrained devices.\nInterested in data curation workflows, or dataset quality analysis.\nEnthusiastic about games, interactive physical experiences, and helping people be active and healthy.\nWe Offer\nCompetitive compensation package.\nFlexible working hours and vacation policy.\nProduct-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.\nFront-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field\nNex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. 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