# Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer at Odyssey

- Company: Odyssey
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://odysseyconsult.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $165K to $508K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-09
- Apply by: 2026-12-24
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/odysseyml/1b82838a-f5c9-4246-86bf-f6f40993736b?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/odyssey-member-of-technical-staff-forward-deployed-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/odyssey-member-of-technical-staff-forward-deployed-engineer/