# Research Scientist – Hand Tracking & Manipulation

About Mecka AI Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI. We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems. We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware. 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, chaotic domain of egocentric manipulation. Beyond these core pillars, you will serve as a lead problem-solver for emergent perception challenges as our hardware and downstream r

- **Id**: 722644
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mecka-research-scientist-computer-vision-hand-tracking-manipulation>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-15T03:54:06Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:21:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 150
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7531
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Training Data & Annotation, Synthetic Data

## Company

- **Id**: 678757
- **Name**: Mecka
- **Domain**: mecka.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mecka>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.286
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 36
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 139000
- **Max usd**: 335000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 590

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Embodied AI** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Inverse Kinematics** — Optional: no
- **Localization** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 150

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T07:29:26Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.262
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 150
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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