# Member of Technical Staff, Research 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: 2026-06-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/odysseyml/18ffb449-dcc4-42b2-a547-fb021fc1177b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/odyssey-member-of-technical-staff-research/

## 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

Tags: Engineering