Research Scientist, HCI-Multimodality - Interaction Perception, PICO

About the Team

The team at PICO is dedicated to leverage technologies such as computer vision, deep learning, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and multi-sensor fusion, we continuously expand the ways humans interact with the virtual world through handheld controllers, bare-hand tracking, eye-tracking, and XR interactive accessories, enhancing the overall interaction experience.

We focus on computer vision + NLP + LLM for next-generation VR intelligent interaction.

Responsibilities

• Develop computer vision-driven VR interaction algorithms centered on intelligent input method systems.
• Build LLM & NLP algorithms for prediction, error correction and completion.
• Research lightweight LLM/NLP and vision-language multimodal fusion for VR.
• Deliver technical innovations, patents and research translation.
• Provide technical leadership for the algorithm team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s/PhD in CS, AI or related field.
• 5+ years NLP/LLM R&D experience, 2+ years leading core algorithms.
• Expertise in Transformers, LLMs and sequence modeling.
• Proficiency in PyTorch/TensorFlow.
• Basic computer vision or multimodal background.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in intelligent input methods, especially Chinese input methods.
• LLM fine-tuning and optimization for interactive systems.
• Vision-language multimodal fusion for VR.
• Lightweight model deployment on VR/edge devices.
• VR interaction and scenario understanding.