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Member of Technical Staff, Research

Odyssey· Engineering
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Palo Alto, Zurich, LondonFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Research-focused technical staff role at Odyssey, an AI lab building general world models (causal, multimodal systems) for long-horizon interaction across domains such as robotics, science, healthcare, and education.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Design and run the experiments, distributed training, and inference systems that make breakthroughs possible, and ship the results into models real users touch.
  • Work shoulder-to-shoulder across research and engineering. Strong work here is recognized by both sides as theirs.
  • Contribute to the lab's scientific and engineering culture: publishing where it matters, building tools that outlast the project, and engaging with the broader community shaping this field.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Generative modellingMultimodal learning
Nice to have:Model-based reinforcement learningComputer vision
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Odyssey

Odyssey is an AI lab focused on general-purpose world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general-purpose world models—a new form of multimodal intelligence.

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