AI Fund
Engineer in Residence: Gesture Games
About this role
Build innovative mobile games that use real-time hand gesture recognition via phone camera instead of traditional tap and swipe controls. This Engineer in Residence role focuses on creating an immediately engaging, physically-interactive game that establishes a new category of mobile gaming.
What you'll do
- Develop gesture recognition technology for mobile camera input
- Create a prototype gesture-controlled game with intuitive gameplay
- Design and implement real-time hand tracking and movement detection
- Iterate on gameplay mechanics to ensure fun and physical engagement
- Establish technical foundations for a new mobile gaming category
- Collaborate on input validation and user experience optimization
What they're looking for
- Mobile game development
- Computer vision or gesture recognition
- Real-time processing and optimization
- Game mechanics design
- Mobile platform development (iOS/Android)
- Physics-based interactions
- User experience design
- Performance optimization
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AI Fund
AI Fund builds and invests in AI-powered applications spanning healthcare, productivity, manufacturing, and developer tools. The company is hiring AI Engineers, ML specialists, and full-stack engineers to deploy production machine learning solutions, develop AI-driven platforms for chronic care and business intelligence, and contribute to open-source AI infrastructure projects.
View all jobs at AI FundLikely interview questions
- How would you approach building real-time hand gesture recognition on mobile devices, and what are the key latency constraints you'd need to consider for game responsiveness?
- What computer vision libraries or frameworks would you evaluate for detecting hand movements through a phone camera, and why?