Location: Hong Kong 
Report to: CTO

The Role

As Director / Senior Director of Platform Software Engineering, you will own the software platform that powers every Nex Playground in the world — from the moment a family unboxes the device through years of daily play. You will lead end‑to‑end across PlayOS (our Android‑based device OS) and cloud services: OS that gives hardware life, OTA updates that reach a growing global fleet, the Play Pass subscription engine, and the compliance infrastructure that lets us launch in new countries with confidence. You will drive architectural direction, set engineering standards, and grow a high‑performing team. You'll stay hands‑on when it counts most and know when to let your leaders lead.

The Mindset

First‑principles, customer‑obsessed, decisive. Perseveres to the highest standards and challenges assumptions. Resilient through production incidents, coachable at every level. Grows engineers into owners and leaders. Empathetic, leads with trust, gives tough feedback, builds a culture of accountability. Executes with discipline — insists on engineering excellence to deliver reliable, secure outcomes at scale.

Success Looks Like

Millions of Playgrounds worldwide, reliably updated over the air. PlayOS that delights families from first unbox through years of daily play — across every market Nex enters. Standards that let the team ship fast with confidence. Strong leaders in your team across device and cloud who own outcomes independently. The platform behind every game, every feature, every market launch.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Team Leadership

• Set platform software strategy in partnership with Product Design and company leadership
• Build a high‑performing engineering team — raise the engineering bar, grow engineers into owners and develop strong leaders
• Build Nex's in‑house platform engineering capability and DevOps practices, evolving from external partnerships to Nex‑led development

PlayOS Delivery

• Implement OS platform roadmap — balancing new capabilities with system health, performance, security, and compliance
• Guide the hardest trade‑offs across architecture, compatibility, and hardware integration
• Drive international compliance — children's privacy (GDPR, COPPA) and localization for every new territory

Cloud & Services

• Establish standards across cloud services, OTA pipelines, and the Play Pass subscription platform
• Ensure reliability, security, privacy, and operational excellence as the fleet scales globally
• Set high standards for observability, incident response, and continuous improvement

Must Have

• Experience leading teams delivering operating systems and cloud services in production at scale
• Proven people leadership: hires and builds high-performing teams, develops managers, and coaches individuals through clear feedback, growth plans, and high standards
• Strong technical judgment across device software and cloud systems — hands‑on when it matters
• Track record raising the bar on quality, reliability, security, privacy, and compliance
• Significant flexibility working across global timezones

Nice to Have

• Experience with subscription or commerce platforms
• Familiarity with reliability practices (SLOs, observability, incident response)
• Experience with consumer privacy regulations (GDPR, COPPA, or equivalent) in a shipped product
• Experience with connected devices and fleets
• Experience building products for kids or families
• Experience with hardware‑software integration and lifecycle support

#LI-Onsite

Location: Hong Kong 
Type: Full Time

The Role

As Director / Senior Director of Hardware Product Engineering, you will shape the hardware that puts a new category of active play into living rooms worldwide. You will own the end‑to‑end success of Nex Playground and its next generation — from early concept with Product Design through global‑scale manufacturing across a diversified supply chain. You will build and lead a hardware product engineering organization, guide the product's technical evolution, and drive the quality and innovation that families trust every day — at a company that's scaling very fast.

The Mindset

First‑principles, customer‑obsessed, decisive. Perseveres to the highest standards and challenges assumptions. Resilient through setbacks, coachable at every level. Grows engineers into owners and leaders. Empathetic, leads with trust, gives tough feedback, builds a culture of accountability. Executes with discipline, using data and experimentation to deliver uncompromising, high‑quality consumer products at scale.

Success Looks Like

Next‑gen hardware launched and ramping to millions of units across a diversified global supply chain — from US living rooms to EU and beyond. A team full of strong leaders who execute without heroics. ODM/JDM partnerships that deliver reliably while in‑house capability grows. The hardware families reach for every day — reliable, safe, and constantly evolving.

Key Responsibilities

Organization & Leadership

• Build a high‑performing Hardware Product Engineering organization — grow engineers into owners and develop strong leaders
• Partner across Software, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Commercial to enable high‑volume production and global market access
• Deliver results through ODM/JDM models while building strategic in‑house capabilities

Product & Technology

• Single accountable owner of the core living‑room hardware product
• Partner with Product Design from early concept to translate customer needs into feasible, scalable hardware
• Drive hardware innovation, R&D, architecture, and key technology decisions

Delivery, Quality & Compliance

• Own the product across its full lifecycle — deliver on scope, timing, performance, reliability, and manufacturability
• Drive regulatory compliance, localization, and support supply chain diversification to fast-track international expansion
• Lead field issue investigation, root‑cause analysis, and corrective actions to continuously improve quality and safety

Must Have

• Significant experience delivering smart consumer electronics at scale
• Strong background in embedded systems and hardware‑software integration
• Experience leading engineering teams in high‑growth environments with product design, manufacturing, and sourcing partners
• Proven experience with ODM/JDM partnerships
• Strong working proficiency in spoken English and Mandarin (fluency strongly preferred)

Nice to Have

• Experience with TV‑connected, gaming, or home entertainment hardware platforms
• Experience with Android‑based consumer devices
• Experience with camera systems
• Experience building products for kids or families

Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full-Time

The Role

As Nex’s Senior Embedded Software / AOSP Engineer, you bring Nex Playground to life. Your OS and firmware run on millions of devices, turning family living rooms into playgrounds where body motion, software, and on-device AI come together as one experience. You will lead the bringup of new platforms and hardware, and craft the HAL and framework layers that fuse our games, system maps, peripherals, and CV/ML pipelines with the silicon beneath.

You will architect the OS and own the full stack — SoC, GPU, NPU, Camera, ISP, WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI, and power — squeezing best-in-class performance out of consumer-grade hardware. You will champion stability and security end-to-end, from a hardened boot chain to deep-stack profiling and disciplined root-cause analysis of field issues. As a technical anchor for the platform, you will help shape Nex’s hardware roadmap and the future products that millions will play on next. You’ll report to the Director of Hardware Engineering.

The Mindset

You build technology that improves people’s lives — especially where the physical and digital worlds meet. You live at the boundary of software and hardware, with deep instincts for how systems behave from the boot loader up. You chase root causes, not symptoms, and take pride in products that hold up at scale. You raise the bar for the systems and the people around you.

What You’ll Do

• Bring up new platforms and hardware, and optimize Playground’s AOSP-based OS across SoC, GPU, NPU, Camera, ISP, WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI, and power for best-in-class performance.
• Design and implement system APIs, HAL, and framework layers in close partnership with the app, game, and CV/ML teams.
• Tune state-of-the-art image processing, CV, and ML pipelines to run efficiently on-device.
• Own system security end-to-end — harden the boot and verification chain, manage keys, and keep security patches current.
• Profile and debug deep into the stack with tools like perfetto, systrace, tcpdump, and Arm Mobile Studio, and drive field issues to root cause.
• Partner with SoC vendors and ODM / JDM partners on BSP drops, escalations, and silicon-level issues.
• Support manufacturing and factory operations — device provisioning, calibration data, key storage, and factory test images.

Must Have

• 5+ years building embedded system software.
• Hands-on experience across multiple AOSP versions, including BSP and SoC bringup.
• Working knowledge of the AOSP build system and release tooling.
• Track record shipping massively deployed embedded products.
• Deep knowledge of Android and Linux internals — kernel, device drivers, HAL, multi-processing, SELinux, verified boot, and performance optimization.
• Proficiency in low-level system debugging.
• Proficiency in C, C++, and Python.
• Good English communication.

Nice to Have

• Experience with TV, set-top-box, video conferencing, or gaming platforms.
• Domain knowledge of cameras, ISPs, and image processing pipelines.
• Domain knowledge of NPUs and deploying ML at the edge.
• Domain knowledge of Arm Cortex CPUs and Mali GPUs.
• Depth in the connectivity stack — WiFi supplicant, Bluetooth, and HID / controller pairing for peripherals.
• Hands-on experience with SoC vendor platforms such as Amlogic, Rockchip, MediaTek, or Qualcomm.
• Open-source contributions to the Linux kernel, AOSP, or related projects.

#LI-Onsite

Location: Hong Kong or Remote
Type: Full Time

The Role

As a Software Engineer at Nex, you will contribute to building the technical foundations that power our platform's most demanding capabilities. You will focus on either ML Engineering or Framework Engineering, two complementary specializations that drive research velocity and product performance.

In the ML Engineering track, you will build the infrastructure that accelerates machine learning research: training pipelines, data workflows, model integration systems, and the tools that enable rapid experimentation. Your work ensures researchers can iterate reliably and move experiments toward production readiness.

In the Framework Engineering track, you will own the design and development of our cross-platform software framework for detection, sensing, haptics, and ML inference. You will build the real-time systems, hardware abstraction layers, and developer APIs that enable multimodal interaction on Nex Playground.

Either path offers the opportunity to work on deeply technical problems in machine learning systems, data infrastructure, sensing technologies, and real-time inference. You will be part of a small, highly technical team that values both specialization and collaboration, with clear ownership of core technology areas.

The Mindset

You are drawn to solving complex technical challenges at the intersection of research and production engineering. You care deeply about building systems that are reliable, performant, and maintainable. You thrive in environments where technical depth matters, where your expertise in ML systems, distributed computing, or real-time software directly shapes what the platform can do.

What You’ll Do

ML Engineering Track

• Design and build training pipelines, data workflows, and model integration systems
• Develop infrastructure that accelerates research iteration and reduces turnaround time
• Build systems for data collection, curation, and preprocessing at scale
• Create tools and automation that move experiments toward production readiness
• Optimize data pipelines for reliability, performance, and observability
• Collaborate with ML researchers to understand their needs and remove technical blockers
• Work on model serving infrastructure and integration with the production framework

Framework Engineering Track

• Design and develop a robust, performant, 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

Both Tracks

• Write clean, well-tested code that maintains high engineering standards
• Participate in code reviews and help raise the engineering bar across the team
• Contribute to shared tools, infrastructure, and cross-role projects (20% Time)
• Work with the dual-leadership model (Engineering Manager and Tech Lead) to understand priorities and technical direction
• Document systems and decisions to support team knowledge sharing

Must Have

ML Engineering Track

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience in building production ML systems, training infrastructure, or research platforms
• Proficiency in Python, additional experience with at least one other systems language (C++, C#, Java, Rust, or Go)
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow in production or research environments
• Experience building or maintaining ML training pipelines or data workflows
• Familiarity with model deployment, inference optimization, or MLOps practices

Framework Engineering Track

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience in building real-time software frameworks, cross-platform systems, or performance-critical applications
• Proficiency in C++/C#, additional experience with at least one other systems language (C++, C#, Java, Rust, or Go)
• Experience with cross-platform development
• Proven track record with performance optimization, real-time systems, or hardware abstraction layers
• Experience building developer APIs or software frameworks used by other engineers

Nice To Have

For ML Engineering Track

• Experience with distributed training systems or GPU-accelerated computing
• Knowledge of data versioning, experiment tracking, or ML metadata management
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools
• Contributions to open-source ML projects or research publications

For Framework Engineering Track

• Experience building real-time systems or low-latency software
• Familiarity with computer vision, signal processing, or embedded systems
• Experience with cross-platform development or hardware abstraction
• Knowledge of performance optimization and profiling
• Experience with sensing technologies (cameras, microphones, or similar)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing

For Either Track

• Experience working in small, high-performance technical teams
• Background in startups, high-growth environments, or consumer product companies
• Passion for pushing technical boundaries and deep problem-solving

Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Nex, you will architect and build the scalable backbone of our global platform powering e‑commerce, subscriptions, user management, device pairing, content delivery, support systems, analytics, and system updates. Your work will serve many millions of connected devices and the operating systems behind them, shaping daily user experiences worldwide. You will partner with business, product, and operation teams, to deliver backend infrastructure that is simple, robust, observable, and reliable at scale.

The Mindset

You care deeply about elegant, scalable systems. You thrive in fast‑paced, product‑driven environments and see great backend engineering as the intersection of craft, simplification, and impact. You enjoy solving problems across performance, security, reliability, and maintainability. You are customer‑obsessed and biased for action. You move quickly while staying precise, careful, and risk‑aware.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services for e‑commerce, subscriptions, accounts, device activation, content delivery, support, analytics, and system updates.
• Build services that are reliable, fault‑tolerant, and highly observable, with strong monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Develop robust APIs and backend logic using contemporary languages and runtimes (primarily Node.js, Python, and Go, selected based on project needs and performance goals).
• Implement and optimize authentication flows, including OAuth and device authentication.
• Use cloud and container technology for deployment, scaling, and service management.
• Architect fault‑tolerant systems using queues, service‑oriented patterns, and message‑driven workflows.
• Guide and collaborate with a mission‑aligned external engineering team.
• Work closely with business, product, and operations to deliver customer‑obsessed solutions.

Must Have

• 5+ years building backend services for high‑traffic products.
• Proven experience running highly observable services in production using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with distributed systems, big data workflows, and database optimization across NoSQL and PostgreSQL.
• Deep understanding of data consistency principles, safe operation design, and concurrency control.
• Passion for deep technical challenges and raising the engineering bar.
• Ability to lead troubleshooting and postmortems during production incidents.
• Ability to work effectively with global teams across time zones.
• Proficiency in English communication.

Nice To Have

• Experience with authentication patterns including OAuth and device flows.
• Experience building fault‑tolerant systems using queues and service‑based or microservices architectures.
• Expertise with real‑time data streams and messaging tools such as Apache Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub.
• Familiarity with Firebase and Supabase.
• Knowledge of privacy, compliance, and information security best practices.
• Experience in startups, high‑growth environments, or consumer product companies.

Location: Hong Kong 
Type: Full Time

The Role

We're seeking an exceptional R&D engineering leader to join our fast-growing Nex Playground hardware team to improve our current products, explore emerging hardware technologies, and establish technical direction that shapes our future roadmap. Your primary focus will be pushing the boundaries of what's possible across the full hardware stack—SoC platforms, cameras and optics, sensors, I/O devices, and other critical subsystems. You'll scout and evaluate cutting-edge technologies, engage deeply with vendors and developer kits, design experiments to map performance limits, build proof-of-concepts, and translate technical possibilities into product specifications. You'll also investigate field issues to improve current products and inform smarter future decisions, ensuring we learn from real-world use while advancing our technology roadmap.

The Mindset

You’re insatiably curious and hands‑on. You are energized by solving very difficult problems. You love exploring new technologies, building things end‑to‑end, and explaining how they work. You think creatively, critique rigorously, and test methodically. You care about purpose and want your skills to improve people’s lives.

What You'll Do

• Scout, evaluate, and document emerging hardware technologies to build team knowledge and capability.
• Source, set up, and assess developer kits; engage with vendors to unlock technical depth.
• Analysis field problems seeking both immediate and ultimate improvements.
• Design and run experiments for reliability, performance, thermals, power, camera optics, and latency; analyze and present results.
• Prototype novel architectures and features to demonstrate feasibility and inform product decisions.
• Develop, adapt, and optimize low‑level drivers, HALs, and firmware.
• Contribute to accessories, motion‑tracking technologies, and the Playground OS.
• Contribute to the requirements and architecture for future hardware.
• Provide technical guidance on hardware strategy, risks, and trade‑offs.

Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or related field.
• A strong track record of building embedded systems / personal devices / home entertainment devices on Android (AOSP).
• Deep knowledge of Android/Linux internals, drivers, HALs, system debugging, and performance optimization.
• Proficiency in C and Python.
• Excellent communication in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Nice To Have

• Domain knowledge of Arm architectures and SoC bring‑up.
• Experience deploying ML applications at the edge (e.g., quantization, acceleration, pipelines).
• Experience in camera sensors, lens optics, and ISPs.
• Experience on non-vision sensors such as IMU, ToF, and environmental.
• Hardware prototyping across ME/EE (schematics, PCB bring‑up, rapid prototyping).
• Strong portfolio of shipped or personal hardware projects.
• Empathy, product intuition, and user‑centric thinking.

Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time

The Role

As a Software Engineer at Nex, you will design and build the scalable backbone of our global platform powering e‑commerce, subscriptions, user management, device pairing, content delivery, support systems, analytics, and system updates. Your work will serve many millions of connected devices and the operating systems behind them, shaping daily user experiences worldwide. You will partner with business, product, and operation teams to deliver backend infrastructure that is simple, robust, observable, and reliable at scale.

The Mindset

You care deeply about elegant, scalable systems. You thrive in fast‑paced, product‑driven environments and see great backend engineering as the intersection of craft, simplification, and impact. You enjoy solving problems across performance, security, reliability, and maintainability. You are customer‑obsessed and biased for action. You move quickly while staying precise, careful, and risk‑aware.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate backend services for e‑commerce, subscriptions, accounts, device activation, content delivery, and system updates.
• Build services that are reliable and observable, with monitoring, logging, and alerting, and use cloud and container technology for deployment and service management.
• Implement robust APIs and backend logic using contemporary languages and runtimes (primarily Node.js, Python, and Go).
• Partner with business, product, and operations stakeholders to deliver customer‑obsessed solutions.

Must Have

• 2+ years building backend services for production systems.
• Experience running services in production using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with databases such as RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Familiar with data consistency principles, safe operation design, and concurrency control.
• Passion for deep technical challenges and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency in English communication.

Nice To Have

• Experience with authentication patterns including OAuth.
• Experience with message queues or microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with messaging tools such as Apache Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub.
• Knowledge of privacy and security best practices.
• Experience in startups or high‑growth environments.