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VP, Research

Odyssey· Engineering
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London, Palo AltoFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead and grow the Frontier Research group at Odyssey, defining and executing the research agenda across world simulation, multimodality, robotics, and multi-agent learning to advance world models and establish Odyssey as a leading voice in the field.

Responsibilities

  • Leading and growing the Frontier Research group, hiring, mentoring, and developing researchers at every level.
  • Owning and driving Odyssey's research agenda across world simulation, multimodality, robotics, and multi-agent learning.
  • Defining and communicating a research vision ambitious enough to position Odyssey as the leading voice in world models, one that attracts top talent to the field and to us specifically.
  • Setting the research roadmap and publication strategy, and representing Odyssey's research externally to the broader community.
  • Collaboration across disciplines with other VP-level leaders, driving forward Odyssey’s holistic top-level strategy.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of research experience with a strong publication record at top ML venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, and similar).
  • Deep technical expertise in at least one of generative video models, world models, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, or robotics.
  • A track record of leading and growing research teams, including mentoring researchers at all levels, not just senior hires.
  • Demonstrated ability to set a research vision that shapes a field and pulls talent toward it.
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-ambiguity environment; startup experience preferred.
  • Equally comfortable partnering with Foundation Models, ML Platform, and Applied AI as with your own researchers.
  • Willing to be in the office 3+ days a week, ideally full-time, based in London.
  • Genuinely motivated by Odyssey's mission to discover the GPT-3 moment for world models, not just intellectually curious about it.

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementResearch vision and strategyWorld models / multimodal learning
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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