AI Research Scientist - Pico - Inter-Perception RD - HCI - Pico - San Jose

The PICO Interactive team is redefining how people connect with virtual worlds, using computer vision, deep learning, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and multi-sensor fusion to enable bare-hand tracking, eye tracking, and XR accessory interaction in real time. The challenge is making these systems work reliably across every lighting condition, movement speed, and use case, on constrained wearable hardware. When tracking breaks, the whole interaction falls apart.

You will build the perception stack that shapes what natural, intuitive XR interaction feels like for millions of users.

We are looking for a Research Scientist to advance these capabilities through algorithms, data, and practical systems.

• Drive research in one or more of the following areas, based on your expertise and project priorities:
• Develop human motion and multimodal interaction understanding algorithms, including pose estimation, tracking, and intent recognition.
• Advance hand-object interaction understanding, including contact, grasping, manipulation, and interaction sequences.
• Build human demonstration data and annotation pipelines for embodied AI, using reconstruction, automated labeling, weak supervision, and synthetic data generation.
• Explore joint optimization of hand tracking, SLAM, and scene geometry to improve spatial consistency and robustness.