Research Scientist – Hand Tracking & Manipulation
Mecka is hiring for Research Scientist – Hand Tracking & Manipulation in New York. Mid level. First seen October 21, 2026; open as of November 12, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.
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- Company
- Mecka
- Where
- New York
- Level
- Mid
- First seen
- October 21, 2026
- Listed via
- Ashby
What the posting says
THE ROLE While our existing perception division handles state estimation and spatial mapping, this role is dedicated to one of the most critical bottlenecks in embodied AI: dexterous manipulation and human-object interaction. We are hiring a Research Scientist to architect and train proprietary foundation models from scratch focused on 3D hand tracking and articulated pose estimation. Your core mandate is twofold: building our in-house equivalents to cutting-edge 3D hand and mesh recovery architectures, and developing highly robust interaction models tailored for the heavily occluded,…
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