Visiting Engineer: Gesture Based Mobile Games

What you'll build

• A playable game where gesture interaction is the core mechanic, not a novelty input mode pasted on top.
• A low-latency recognition loop that maps hand movement into responsive gameplay.
• Calibration, feedback, and fail-state handling so the game remains usable in messy real-world environments.
• A technical base that could expand into a reusable gesture-recognition platform over time.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you need

• 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.

Helpful but not required

• 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.

Compensation

$10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total). This is a contract role during the residency. If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside.