Research Scientist (Embodied AI)

Location: New York, United States; On-site

Salary: $170,000–$210,000 per year, plus equity opportunities

Company

hirify.global builds data infrastructure for robotics and embodied AI, including data capture, labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows for AI labs and robotics companies.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and train proprietary models for 3D hand pose estimation, dense mesh recovery, and kinematic tracking.
• Scale multi-view and temporal architectures across multi-GPU clusters and massive multimodal datasets.
• Develop models for egocentric hand-object interaction under motion blur, self-occlusion, and rapid rotations.
• Track objects through complex grasps, segment tools from hands, and model contact points and forces.
• Prototype perception systems for tactile-visual fusion, action segmentation, and new hardware sensors.
• Integrate tracking outputs into optimized pipelines for physical contact, object affordances, and robotic control policies.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in deep learning, 3D computer vision, articulated tracking, and hand pose estimation.
• Proven experience training large-scale vision models from scratch.
• Strong understanding of parametric hand models, inverse kinematics, and dense mesh estimation.
• Expertise with PyTorch and deep learning scaling frameworks.
• Experience curating massive, multi-terabyte image and video datasets.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced research environment with rapidly changing priorities.

Nice to have

• First-author publications at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, or similar venues in relevant research areas.
• Experience with egocentric manipulation datasets such as Ego4D, Ego-Exo4D, DexYCB, or EPIC-Kitchens.
• Experience writing custom CUDA kernels, differentiable mesh rendering, or collision and contact computation.

Culture & Benefits

• Access to proprietary, high-quality spatial and temporal manipulation data.
• Blank-slate research and model ownership without legacy-system maintenance.
• Compute resources for state-of-the-art model development.
• Research outputs directly influence embodied AI agents and robotic manipulation.
• Equity, health and wellness benefits, and other company programs may be included in total rewards.
• Inclusive hiring practices and interview accommodations are available.