AI Engineering Internship: Agentic Systems to improve health and wellbeing

The Verse creates games and digital experiences that improve health and wellbeing.

The Verse builds games and digital experiences that improve mental health, emotional wellbeing, and human connection. We’re a global community of creators, game designers, developers, artists, scientists, storytellers, and students; united by a shared purpose: to make games that make people healther, happier and more hopeful.

✨ What We Do We design game-based therapeutics, immersive experiences, and playful tools that help people breathe better, feel better, relate better, and grow. Our work blends:

• Game Design + Wellbeing Science
• Emotional Regulation + Prosociality
• Ritual, Story, and Play +
• Community + Co-creation Our philosophy is simple: Human-first. Collaborative. Holistic.

Games For Change - Game Development Internship (Unity & Unreal Engine)

**We are an early stage startup with lots of gaming hats to wear. **

• Game Design
• Game Development
• Unity or Unreal programmer: able to code/program. Contribute to existing projects and work with The Verse team to create new games and game mechanics. We are always open to new ideas!
• Story Telling.
• Graphic Design.
• Art Direction.
• Digtal Art & Animation.
• Artists.
• Philosophers.

Requirements & Skills

• Technical Mastery: Experience with Unity or Unreal Engine (C# / C++ or Blueprints) to program, refine, and iterate on game mechanics.
• Creative Vision: Skills in storytelling, art direction, 2D/3D digital art, animation, or narrative game design.
• Agile & Multidisciplinary Mindset: Comfortable wearing multiple startup hats—from game design and philosophy to graphic design and user experience.
• Proactive Collaboration: Strong communication skills and an eagerness to contribute fresh ideas, prototype new concepts, and build collaboratively with a team.

🌍 Who Thrives Here The Verse attracts people who want their work to mean something:

• Undergrads searching for purpose
• Grad students applying research to real-world impact
• Technologists seeking mission-driven creativity
• Artists & Healers wanting to inspire healing
• Academics craving applied practice
• Builders who want to help shape a “metaverse for human flourishing” We receive 100+ applications a month from around the world. People join The Verse because they want to grow, collaborate, and create games for good.

🌌 Overview of The Verse: We Make Games That Heal We build transformative worlds that use breath/humming and prosocial-practices (cooperation/empathy/altruism) as game mechanics to drive real-world wellbeing: Adventures in Breath: Breath-powered play where players use real-time breathing and humming to navigate the magical world of Harmonia, regulate their nervous systems, and unlock sonic abilities.

WalkXR: An immersive Unreal Engine platform that transforms real human challenges into embodied gameplay using storytelling, movement, and emotional-regulation mechanics.

• Small Moment Walk, AI-driven game experience that transforms everyday micro-interactions into a gamified journey for social confidence. By pairing Unreal Engine cinematic worlds with evidence-based Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), it helps players safely overcome social anxiety, build emotional resilience, and practice human connection one small moment at a time.
• PlayNow is an immersive digital wellness experience designed specifically for student-athletes to combat performance anxiety and life-sport balance. It gives players and teams a play-based platform to build emotional resilience, role-play difficult conversations and improve team dynamics.
• *Veterans Walk * is a digital wellness experience designed to support military veterans transitioning back to civilian life. By exploring game environments with evidence-based interventions, it provides a space to process stress, role-play difficult conversations, and build emotional resilience.
• The Convo is an emotionally resonant musical journey that transforms grief and loss into a space for healing. Musical prompting guides users through loss and grief, offering a deeply personal and cathartic way to process sorrow through song.

Karma The Six Realm Game: A prosocial RPG based on the Buddhist concept of the six realms, where empathy, cooperation, and conflict resolution serve as core mechanics to reward compassionate choices.

Why Join Us?

• Real-World Impact: Build games and therapeutics that measurably improve human lives.
• Radical Collaboration: Work alongside clinicians, neuroscientists, game industry veterans, and transformative tech leaders.
• Growth & Mentorship: Receive hands-on experience, career coaching, and strong institutional references.
• Culture of Flourishing: Experience a supportive, human-first startup environment that prioritizes your personal wellbeing as much as your output.

📩 How to Apply Ready to build the future of wellbeing through play? Send your resume and a short note about why you want to build with us to [email protected].

🌐 Learn More: versebuilding.com Contact [email protected] for more info and/or with any questions! We are always interested in connecting with the right people*

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TheVerse team is 50+ entrepreneurs, artists, and game developers with experiences and expertise (MAs & PhDs) in gaming, world building, metaverses, build in the open, community development, health & wellbeing.

Ben Simon-Thomas - Founder/CEO. Buddhist-leaning entrepreneur and ecosystem developer. Founded startups in the 3D space (SoundFit: 3D Scanning & ODMS: parts-on-demand), social commerce (GroupGain), worked in health-care startups and life style modification businesses (PMRI). MA in Buddhist psychology, degrees in Religious Philosophy and Language. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bensimonthomas/↗

🌌 The Verse — Games & Digital Therapeutics for a Healthier, More Connected World