# Member of Technical Staff, TLM: Research Scientist 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: 2026-07-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/odysseyml/420fa2da-2a21-45d3-81b2-4ce35fbee749
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/odyssey-member-of-technical-staff-tlm-research-scientist/

## About the role

Define and drive original research into the foundational open problems of world modeling: temporal coherence, causal reasoning, long-horizon prediction, and user-intent alignment. Move beyond diffusion and transformer paradigms, design novel architectures, learning objectives, and training frameworks that reframe what generative interactive video can do.

## What they're looking for

- A staff-level or senior ML researcher with a strong publication record in generative modeling, video synthesis, multimodal learning, or adjacent areas
- Someone who works from first principles: you define the problem before reaching for a method, and you build minimal systems to prove what's possible before scaling
- Motivated by understanding: you care about why models work, not just that they do
- Experienced leading or mentoring a small research group, with a track record of taking projects from open question to publication or deployment
- Comfortable in a focused, autonomous lab environment where deep thinking and tight collaboration are the norm
- Excited to help establish the scientific foundation of a new medium, one that will define how AI perceives and interacts through pixels over the next decade

Tags: Engineering