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Gesture Games

AI Fund· Gesture Games / AI Fund
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Mountain View, CAContractPosted 5mo ago

About the role

Role to build a new category of mobile gesture-controlled games using real-time hand movement via phone camera. 12-week, on-site residency in Mountain View, CA to explore gesture recognition, low-latency pipelines, and potential platform IP.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Experience using AI coding assistants and modern AI tools to accelerate implementation without shipping brittle game logic.
  • US work authorization.

Skills

Required:Computer visionOn-device machine learningGesture recognition
Nice to have:Mobile game development

Benefits

  • $10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total). (contract role during residency)
  • Opportunity for founder-level role with meaningful equity upside if the idea progresses to a funded company.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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