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Research Scientist
Chelsea Avondale
Canada
- Full-time
…engineering, and insurance. Our operations include our scientific research & engineering division (Skynet Software) and Canadian property & casualty insurance company (Max…
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Staff Data Scientist - Decision Intelligence
Xanadu
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
As a Staff Data Scientist, you will lead the design and development of a unified decision intelligence product that fuses data from across Xanadu's R&D efforts – fabrication, device…
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Research Scientist – Computer Vision (Body Pose Detection)v1
Mecka.ai
Richmond Hill, ON
- $150,000 to $200,000 USD / year
- Full-time
…human locomotion, and human-scene interaction. We are hiring a Research Scientist to architect and train proprietary foundation models from scratch focused on 3D human body tracking and…
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Research Scientist – Computer Vision (Body Pose Detection)v1
Mecka
Richmond Hill, ON
- $150,000 to $200,000 USD / year
- Full-time
…human locomotion, and human-scene interaction. We are hiring a Research Scientist to architect and train proprietary foundation models from scratch focused on 3D human body tracking and…
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Senior Data Scientist - Decision Intelligence
Xanadu
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead the design and development of a unified decision intelligence product that fuses data from across Xanadu's R&D efforts – fabrication, device…
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AI Evaluation Scientist - Learning & Cognition
Vector Institute
Toronto, ON
- $125,800 to $157,300 CAD / year
- Full-time
This Scientist role focuses on establishing criteria for high-quality learning agents and how they should be evaluated. You will translate educational goals into valid constructs, rubrics,…
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Senior Data Scientist – Decision Intelligence
Xanadu
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead the design and development of a unified decision intelligence product that fuses data from across Xanadu's R&D efforts – fabrication, device…
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Research Scientist, Simulation Agents
Waabi
Toronto, ON
- $158,000 to $269,000 USD / year
- Full-time
The Behaviors team at Waabi develops cutting-edge simulation agents and scenario generation algorithms for Waabi World, our simulation platform. As a Research Scientist on the Behaviors…
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Research Scientist – Computer Vision (3D Environment Reconstruction)
Mecka
Remote, Canada
- $200,000 to $230,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
- Remote
…classical state estimation, this role is dedicated to bridging the simulation-to-reality gap through state-of-the-art spatial intelligence. We are hiring a Research Scientist to architect…
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Research Scientist – Computer Vision (Body Pose Detection)
Mecka.ai
Richmond Hill, ON
- $150,000 to $200,000 USD / year
- Full-time
…human locomotion, and human-scene interaction. We are hiring a Research Scientist to architect and train proprietary foundation models from scratch focused on 3D human body tracking and…
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Research Scientist – Computer Vision (Body Pose Detection)
Mecka
Remote, Canada
- $150,000 to $200,000 USD / year
- Full-time
- Remote
…human locomotion, and human-scene interaction. We are hiring a Research Scientist to architect and train proprietary foundation models from scratch focused on 3D human body tracking and…
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AI Research Scientist
Autodesk
Toronto, ON · AMER - Canada - Ontario - Toronto - University Ave
- Full-time
As a Senior Research Scientist in the AI Lab at Autodesk Research, you will conduct fundamental and applied research on Motion Foundation Models: general-purpose models that can represent,…
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Applied AI Scientist
Mphasis
Canada
- Full-time
…training/evaluation data, policy improvement, human feedback, simulation or other mechanisms. We are interested in what works - not in allegiance to a particular…
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Sr. Physical AI Research Scientist
LG Electronics
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
LG Toronto AI Lab is looking for a Sr. Physical AI Research Scientist who will contribute to designing and developing robot agents that operate safely and robustly in the real world. This…
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UDA Business Analyst - Students Seeking Opportunities
Imperial Oil
Calgary, AB
- Full-time
…engineering, engineering, mathematics, statistics, operations research, management information systems, or a related University…
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Machine Learning Resident - Client: Fillip Fleet
Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute)
Edmonton, AB
- Full-time
Research or project experience with LLM-based agents, tool use and function calling, structured output generation, or retrieval-augmented systems.
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AMI Scientist/Interns - Geometry and 3D Vision
AMI
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
…model-based AI. We combine the scientific rigor of a top-tier research institute with focus on engineering excellence and…
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AI Research Scientist
Raydar
Remote, Canada
- Full-time
- Remote
We are hiring an AI Research Scientist to advance the frontier of reliable agentic AI. You will be a core contributor to original methods for agent simulation, evaluation, optimization, and…
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Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist - Sports Modeling & Live Betting
Kero Sports
Remote, Canada
- $100,000 to $160,000 USD / year
- Full-time
- Remote
We are looking for a senior or lead-level data scientist to own meaningful parts of our sports modeling stack.
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Sr. Physical AI Research Scientist
Human Resources
Toronto, Ontario
LG Toronto AI Lab is looking for a Sr. Physical AI Research Scientist who will contribute to designing and developing robot agents that operate safely and robustly in the real world. This…

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Mecka

Research Scientist – Computer Vision (Body Pose Detection)v1

Richmond Hill, ON, Canada

$150,000 to $200,000 USD / year · Full-time

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Pay: $150,000 to $200,000 USD / year
Job type: Full-time
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 14, 2026

Original job description

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: full-body kinematics, human locomotion, and human-scene interaction. We are hiring a Research Scientist to architect and train proprietary foundation models from scratch focused on 3D human body tracking and articulated pose estimation.

Your core mandate is twofold: building our in-house equivalents to cutting-edge 3D human body and mesh recovery architectures, and developing highly robust interaction models tailored for complex, real-world environments characterized by severe occlusions and dynamic motion. Beyond these core pillars, you will serve as a lead problem-solver for emergent perception challenges as our hardware and downstream robotics needs evolve.

To achieve this, we can provide a massive, continuous stream of high-quality, proprietary ground-truth human motion data captured by our infrastructure. You will use this data advantage to train networks that surpass current public baselines, owning the complete human-scene perception loop for our data engine.

What You'll Work On

Architecting Proprietary Articulation Models

Zero-to-One Model Development: Design, implement, and train state-of-the-art networks for 3D human pose estimation, dense full-body mesh recovery, and kinematic tracking.
Large-Scale Distributed Training: Scale multi-view and temporal ML architectures across multi-GPU clusters to handle massive, multi-modal datasets of humans navigating and interacting with their environments.
Loss & Architecture Innovation: Push the boundaries of current paradigms by developing novel loss functions that enforce biomechanical constraints, temporal smoothness, postural balance, and physical plausibility.

Human-Scene Interaction (HSI) & Complex Motion Modeling

Dynamic Scene Understanding: Build and train custom architectures capable of handling extreme motion blur, severe self-occlusion, and multi-person crowding inherent in real-world human behavior.
Allocentric & Egocentric Tracking: Use your models to track human bodies through complex spaces, mapping foot-to-ground contact, joint torques, and environmental affordances to provide rich regularization for downstream action-conditioned robotics models (especially humanoid robots).

Emergent Perception R&D

Rapid Prototyping: Tackle novel, unmapped AI challenges as they arise. You will rapidly prototype and deploy new models for tasks spanning fine-grained action segmentation, intent prediction, and novel hardware sensor integrations.
Agile Problem Solving: Pivot to resolve sudden algorithmic bottlenecks in the data engine, adapting the latest research to unblock new product capabilities for our robotics customers.

Dense Contact & Physics-Aware Tracking

Interaction Integration: Connect the outputs of your foundational tracking models into highly optimized pipelines that reason about physical contact surfaces, gravity, and momentum, directly bridging the gap between human video data and robotic control/locomotion policies.

Who You Are

Required Background

Deep expertise in Deep Learning, 3D Computer Vision, and specifically Articulated Tracking / Human Body Pose Estimation.
Proven experience training large-scale vision models from scratch, not just running inference or fine-tuning existing checkpoints.
Strong theoretical and practical understanding of parametric human body models (e.g., SMPL, SMPL-X, GHUM, MHR, SOMA-X), inverse kinematics, and dense mesh estimation.
Mastery of PyTorch and deep learning scaling frameworks.
Experience handling and curating massive, multi-terabyte image and video datasets for training.
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift rapidly to capitalize on new research or hardware capabilities.

Strong Signals:

First-author publications in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS) focusing on 3D human pose tracking, human-scene interaction (HSI), human motion capture, or human mesh recovery.
Specific experience working with massive human motion and interaction datasets (e.g., AMASS, Human3.6M, EgoBody, PROX) and solving the unique optimization challenges they present.

Why This Role?

The Data Advantage: You will have access to a scale and quality of proprietary spatial and temporal ground truth for human motion that most academic researchers only dream of.
Pure R&D & Model Ownership: You are not maintaining legacy systems; you are given a blank slate and the compute resources to build the state-of-the-art.
High Impact: The kinematic priors and interaction models you architect will directly define how the next generation of embodied AI agents - from mobile manipulators to humanoid robots - learn to physically navigate, balance, and interact with the world.

Warning: Research Scientist positions require hyper-specific expertise. Please limit your applications to one research role. Applying to multiple Research Scientist positions suggests a lack of focus and may result in the rejection of all submissions. You may, however, apply to other non-research roles alongside your research application.

A Note on Applying

Studies show women and candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they meet 100% of the listed qualifications, while others apply after meeting 60%. If you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply - we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.

Inclusive Hiring at Mecka

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive candidate experience. Should you require any accommodation whatsoever during the interview process, please inform us without any hesitation. Mecka is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment and opportunity in all phases of recruitment, selection, and employment, in compliance with employment law. We do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other protected category. Mecka is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, fostering a culture of inclusivity and maintaining a work environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

Mecka uses artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly to support administrative and efficiency-focused aspects of our recruitment process. This includes activities such as drafting job descriptions, generating interview questions, note-taking and recordings, and supporting sourcing and scheduling workflows. All candidate evaluations, interviews, and hiring decisions are made by members of the Mecka team. While AI tools may assist with screening and assessment, they do not replace human judgment in selection decisions. Our use of AI is intended to streamline routine tasks, improve consistency, and enhance the overall candidate experience. We are committed to upholding principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability in all hiring activities. Mecka regularly reviews its recruitment practices to mitigate bias and to ensure alignment with applicable laws and evolving best practices.

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Responsibilities

You will architect and train proprietary foundation models for 3D human body tracking and articulated pose estimation. Additionally, you will develop robust interaction models to handle complex real-world environments and support downstream robotics needs.

Requirements

Candidates must have deep expertise in deep learning, 3D computer vision, and articulated tracking with experience training large-scale vision models from scratch. A strong theoretical understanding of parametric human body models and mastery of PyTorch are required.

Skills

Deep learning
3D computer vision
Articulated tracking
Human body pose estimation
PyTorch
Inverse kinematics
Dense mesh estimation
Distributed training
Multi-view ML architectures
Temporal ML architectures
Human-scene interaction
Biomechanics
Action segmentation
Intent prediction
Robotics
Data engine optimization

Benefits

Health and wellness benefits
Equity
Competitive salary

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Keywords

Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Robotics
Embodied AI
Human Pose Estimation
SMPL
SMPL-X
PyTorch
Inverse Kinematics
Mesh Recovery
Foundation Models
Multi-GPU
Distributed Training
Human-Scene Interaction
Data Labeling
Kinematics
Action Segmentation
Intent Prediction
AMASS
Human3.6M
EgoBody
PROX
Machine Learning
Research Scientist
Perception
Spatial Mapping
Locomotion
Biomechanical Constraints
Physical Plausibility
Sensor Integration

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