// Open Role at Nex Playground
Join Nex Playground as a Senior Electronics Engineer to drive the development of award-winning active play systems. You'll lead hardware design, validation, and production for consoles and smart accessories, ensuring high standards and shaping future innovations.
Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.
Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun (https://www.playthatmovesyou.com/p/have-fun) and Is Motion Gaming Back? (https://www.playthatmovesyou.com/p/is-motion-gaming-back), as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.
Nex employees may be expected to collaborate with colleagues across different time zones. Depending on the role and location, occasional travel may also be required for company events, external meetings, and other business-related activities.
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Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full-time
As Nex’s Senior Electronic Engineer, you will work at the heart of Playground hardware and smart accessories, helping turn ambitious product ideas into reliable products at scale. You will develop and validate PCBAs, turn product intent into precise specifications, lead JDM execution, support products through production, and solve manufacturing and field problems at their root.
You will work hands-on from development and EVT through industrialization, production, and sustaining. Our partners bring development capacity and manufacturing expertise; you will ensure Nex sets the technical direction, makes the critical decisions, and holds every product to a high engineering standard.
The knowledge you gain from today’s products will also shape what comes next. By strengthening our tools, lab practices, standards, and technical judgment, you will help Nex build better consoles, push the boundaries of active play, and bring exceptional experiences to families everywhere.
You are curious, hands-on, and evidence-led. You turn ambiguity into clear requirements, promising ideas into working hardware, and complex failures into verified root causes. You pair bold product ambition with engineering discipline, challenge weak assumptions, and act on first principles and measured results. You build today’s product while making Nex stronger for the next one.
1. Build and Sustain the Hardware
2. Set the Engineering Standard
3. Lead JDM Execution
4. Make Quality Scale
5. Shape What’s Next
Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at https://www.nexplayground.com/about.
We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!
Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.
We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.
- Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - 7+ years developing electronic systems for connected consumer products, including at least one product through mass production and sustaining. - Experience leading technical work with JDM/ODM partners and critically evaluating designs, plans, circuit and functional testing, test data, and reports. - Demonstrated ability to evaluate technologies and components and turn findings into product recommendations. - Hands-on experience building prototypes and functional PCBAs, bringing up boards, using lab equipment, and debugging cross-layer problems. - Experience producing detailed engineering requirements and verification criteria. - Strong manufacturing and field failure-analysis skills, including verified root cause and corrective action. - Clear written and spoken English; working Mandarin for supplier and factory collaboration.