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
Embed closely with strategic customers to understand their workflows, technical constraints, data, and highest-value problems. Identify where world models can create a step-change in capability, particularly across robotics, simulation, autonomy, training, interactive media, and other physical or visual domains. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- We’re hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to bring Odyssey’s world models into high-impact, real-world environments
- Deeply technical, with experience in world models, generative video, multimodal learning, robotics, autonomous systems, reinforcement learning, computer vision, or large-scale machine learning
- An unusually strong builder. You can move from an ambiguous problem to an experiment, prototype, and deployed system without waiting for a detailed specification
- Comfortable modifying models as well as building the systems around them. You can work across training, post-training, inference, data pipelines, evaluation, and application code
- Skilled at working from first principles. You can distinguish a genuine research problem from an integration problem and design the right intervention for each
- Fluent across the research-to-production gap. You care why a model works, but also whether it works reliably on real data, at acceptable latency, within operational constraints
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.
We’re hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to bring Odyssey’s world models into high-impact, real-world environments.
This role sits at the intersection of research, engineering, product, and our partners. You’ll work directly with customers to understand problems that cannot be solved with...
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