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. That might mean new architectures, new training paradigms, or new ways of representing time, dynamics, and interaction. Take ideas from hypothesis through experiment to working prototype.
What they're looking for
- Deeply technical, with a track record in generative modelling, multimodal learning (visual, audio, text), model-based RL, computer vision, or similar areas. You've either originated work that moved the field
- 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
- 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" is a partial answer
- Thrive in small, focused teams that value autonomy, speed, and tight collaboration over process
- Excited to help define a new category of AI: how AI perceives, learns, and interacts with the world
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 hire deeply technical staff working in video generation, multimodal, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and adjacent fields. Whether you're building from scratch, scaling training runs, or working on inference, we hire people who can take an idea and make it real.
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