Real-Time ML Framework Engineer (Cross-Platform)

Nex (Playground); Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 520,000 - 760,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Flexible hours

Growth culture

Cutting-edge gaming tech

Job summary

Nex Playground, a San Jose, California based company, seeks a Software Engineer to design and build a cross-platform framework powering sensing, detection, haptics, and ML inference for Nex Playground. You will develop real-time systems and hardware abstractions, enabling multimodal interaction across devices.

Join a small, highly technical team that values depth, collaboration, and ownership of core technology areas in a product-driven gaming tech environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of real-time software experience.
• Experience building cross-platform frameworks.
• Proven performance optimization in real-time systems.
• Experience creating developer APIs for engineers.
• Background in hardware abstraction layers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a robust, cross-platform framework for sensing, detection, haptics, and ML inference.
• Build efficient runtime execution systems and hardware abstraction layers.
• Develop developer APIs that make complex sensing and inference accessible.
• Optimize for real-time performance on multimodal data streams.
• Work on camera, microphone, and haptics integration.
• Implement code that runs reliably across different platforms and hardware configurations.
• Improve framework stability, performance, and developer experience.
• Write clean, well-tested code with high engineering standards.
• Participate in code reviews and raise engineering bar.
• Contribute to shared tools and cross-role projects (20% Time).
• Collaborate with Engineering Manager and Tech Lead on priorities.

Skills

Real-time

Cross-platform

C/C++/C#

Performance tuning

APIs for engineers

Tools

CI/CD

Embedded systems

Job description

Nex Playground, a San Jose, California based company, seeks a Software Engineer to design and build a cross-platform framework powering sensing, detection, haptics, and ML inference for Nex Playground. You will develop real-time systems and hardware abstractions, enabling multimodal interaction across devices.

Join a small, highly technical team that values depth, collaboration, and ownership of core technology areas in a product-driven gaming tech environment.