# Member of Technical Staff, Foundation Models 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
- Posted: 2026-07-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/odysseyml/1a1a2cc0-8a1a-4cbb-8ffa-879161b06e14
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/odyssey-member-of-technical-staff-foundation-models/

## About the role

Learn what makes large real-time world models tick. Understand how data, architecture, scale, and diffusion algorithms interact. Run scaling studies and use them: fit scaling laws over model size, data, and compute, and let them pick the next large run rather than intuition alone.

## What they're looking for

- 2+ years of software engineering experience, with significant work in ML performance
- 4+ years of ML engineering experience, or a PhD in a related field
- Hands-on experience training large models, pretraining at multi-node scale, and the debugging that comes with it
- Comfortable reasoning about scale: scaling laws, compute and data budgets, and what a small-scale ablation does and does not predict
- A holistic ML engineer — happy to move between data, model, systems, and evaluation, and to own the whole path from an idea to a shipped model
- Track record of owning projects end to end

Tags: Engineering