WellVerseAI: Agentic AI To Improve Health & Wellbeing

## About the role The Verse is looking for a highly skilled AI Engineer to build the core components of WalkXR, our gamified therapeutic platform. You will get hands-on experience developing sophisticated, emotionally intelligent AI agents that will live inside an Unreal Engine and Unity environments. This is a deeply technical role for a student who wants to build a cutting-edge project for their portfolio and master the tools used in modern AI development. ## The Opportunity This internship is ideal for a Master's or PhD student with a strong background in software engineering and a passion for generative AI. This internship is for engineers who want to build AI for IMPACT. ## What You'll Do - Build a Multi-Agent OS: Go beyond single agents to design and implement an ecosystem of highly specialized agents that collaborate to create a seamless user experience. You will use LangGraph to orchestrate these complex interactions. - Develop Persistent Memory: Scale and refine our core Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline using Python, LlamaIndex, and ChromaDB. Your work will empower our agents with persistent memory, enabling them to learn from interactions and deliver personalized, context-aware experiences. - Execute Model Fine-Tuning: Implement our RLAIF/DPO training pipeline using efficient techniques like LoRA/QLoRA to create highly aligned, custom models that power our agent orchestration system. - Develop the Agent Backend: Build and maintain the core FastAPI service that serves the entire agent ecosystem to our Unreal Engine 5 client, powering its NPC avatars. - Prototype & Test in Streamlit: Create internal Streamlit applications for rapid testing and demonstration of complex, multi-agent conversational flows and memory recall. - Modeling & Simulation: Build and run simulation scenarios to evaluate agent performance, memory, and multi-agent interactions, using collected data to drive system improvements. ## Who You Are - Currently enrolled in or a recent graduate of a Master's or PhD program in Computer Science, AI, or a related engineering field. - Strong programming skills in Python, with demonstrated experience building complex, multi-component applications or systems (via personal project) ## What We Offer - Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and game development projects with real-world impact. - Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, FastAPI, LlamaIndex, ChromaDB, and LangGraph. - Collaborative environment with a global team of passionate developers, designers, and scientists. - Potential for mentorship and professional growth within a mission-driven organization. ## About the company The Verse creates games and digital experiences that improve health and wellbeing. The Verse is building WellVerseAI, an emotionally intelligent AI platform that creates personalized and customized game based experiences that help players build emotional resilience, prosociality, and self-awareness through gaming! We are using gaming and AI to reimagine health and wellbeing through immersive, game-first experiences. Traditional wellness tools suffer from drop-off rates because they feel like homework. We are fixing this by building customizable, AI-driven gameplay to help players learn, grow and transform. ## What Makes The Verse's AI Tech Stack Unique As an AI Engineer here, you won't just be fine-tuning boilerplate wrappers. You will be building a dynamic, real-time behavioral sandbox: - Emotionally Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems: Our LLM agents are trained to evaluate and dynamically respond to human behavioral patterns, emotional tone, and shifting user goals in real-time. - Live Runtime Scoring: Every single turn, our system quantifies deep human-centric metrics, like trust, openness, and rapport, and feeds those vectors back into the prompt and agent behavior to guide the experience. - Long-Term Context & Memory Engines: You will design advanced memory and retrieval architecture so the system continuously adapts, remembers, and customizes recommendations based on weeks or months of player interactions. - Procedural Storytelling & Gameplay Engines: Most games are hardcoded. Our architecture generates open-ended, goal-oriented "playable paths" natively driven by AI gameplay logic. ## Why Join Us Now? - Massive Strategic Impact: 1 in 7 people globally are facing mental health crises. You will build scalable, high-retention tech addressing acute needs across young adults, universities, and healthcare networks. - If you are an AI engineer who wants to solve deep semantic memory problems, push LLMs past the boundary of static chats, and build an "operating system for human flourishing" --> let's build it together. ## The Verse The Verse is a global community of inspired gamers, developers, designers, scientists, artists, visionaries, teachers, and students who join together to passionately contribute their wide-ranging expertise to invent experiences that enhance human flourishing. Our mission is to collaboratively create digital therapeutics and experiences that are playful, embodied, and ritual-enriched, that invite co-creation and foster participation and that enhance health, improve well-being and raise consciousness. Our guiding principle: - Human-first Approach - Collaboration - Holistic Thinking - Play, Ritual, Story - Servant Leadership ## THE PROBLEM WE ARE ADDRESSING In a world embroiled in an ongoing polycrisis, there is a great need (and significant market interest) for solutions improving mental health, well-being and building human connection. ## HOW WE CREATE IMPACT Through our process of ideation, research, prototyping, and testing we guide our projects toward targeted partners and their audiences, seeking always to address vital issues and generate measurable outcomes. ## THE WAY OF THE VERSE We are committed to engaging in work that creates greater happiness, wisdom, and well-being, and relieves suffering in ourselves and others. We think of The Verse as a practice. TheVerse builds games and experiences that improve health and wellbeing! We incorporate mindfulness, contemplation, and prosociality. Our games are fun and have a positive impact on health and wellbeing. ## If this sounds like you, please get in touch! We'd love to hear about your interests and how we can work together to build a better world through art and gaming. We are looking for people who love creating novel solutions to complex problems.