# Member of Technical Staff, ML Performance 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 (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-03-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/odysseyml/28c99a01-1e1a-498c-adca-f2271656e824
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/odyssey-member-of-technical-staff-ml-performance/

## About the role

Optimize models that will be used in real-time by hundreds of thousands of users. Design and implement distributed training strategies to reduce training time and resource consumption on large GPU clusters.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant work in ML performance
- Deep insight into modern machine learning architectures with a natural instinct for performance optimization, particularly distributed training and inference
- Track record of owning projects end to end
- Problem-solving mindset with the ability to acquire new skills as needed
- Proficiency with PyTorch (or TF/JAX) and Triton as well as NVIDIA GPU ecosystems and optimization stacks
- Highly metric-based

Tags: Engineering