Odyssey builds, secures and integrates capabilities and technologies to meet tomorrow’s mission requirements. We enhance operational readiness through comprehensive program support. Backed by a16z, General Catalyst and GV.
About the role
Push what world models can do past where current diffusion and transformer approaches stop, with an emphasis on conditioning and control. That might mean new architectures, new training paradigms, or new ways of representing time, dynamics, and interaction. Train the conditioning methods and control policies that give real handles on generation: action, camera, physics, style, and the long-horizon consistency that holds them together.
What they're looking for
- Comfortable working from first principles. You can define a problem, design experiments to test it, and build the minimal system that proves what's possible
- Fluent across the research-to-application gap. You care how and why models work, and you care that they hold up under real constraints, on real content, at real latency
- Energized by ambiguity. You've operated in areas without precedent and built the tools, frameworks, and patterns as you went
- Have a real view on where this field needs to go next, and can defend it. "Bigger model, more compute" isn't an answer that lands here
- Thrive in small, focused teams that value autonomy, speed, and tight collaboration over process
- Excited to help define a new medium, how AI perceives, learns, and interacts through pixels, over the next decade
More about this role
Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond.
Odyssey’s founders previously pioneered the most complex application of physical AI: self-driving cars. They’ve now brought together a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve, who have made significant contributions to language models (DeepMind Gemini), video models (DeepMind Veo), world models (Wayve GAIA), and autonomous systems (Tesla FSD).
Odyssey has raised significant venture capital from GV, Amazon, AMD, EQT, NVIDIA, Natural Capital, In-Q-Tel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Garry Tan, Kyle Vogt, and researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines.
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