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Member of Technical Staff, TLM: Research Scientist

Odyssey· Engineering
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Palo Alto, Zurich, LondonFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Research scientist role at Odyssey focusing on long-horizon world modeling, causal reasoning, and generative interactive video. Leadership of a small research group, advancing foundational problems, and translating breakthroughs into prototypes in collaboration with engineering.

Responsibilities

  • 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 for generative interactive video.
  • Build and mentor a small, high-output research group, guiding work from hypothesis through experimental validation to prototype demonstration.
  • Translate foundational breakthroughs into stable prototypes in close collaboration with engineering. Not incremental improvements, but genuinely new capabilities.
  • Publish at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) and actively engage the broader research community to shape the direction of the field.

Qualifications

  • A staff-level or senior ML researcher with a strong publication record in generative modeling, video synthesis, multimodal learning, or adjacent areas.
  • Works from first principles: defines the problem before reaching for a method, builds minimal systems to prove what's possible before scaling.
  • Motivated by understanding: cares 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.

Skills

Required:Publication and research leadershipFoundational AI researchMentoring / team leadershipGenerative modeling, video synthesis, 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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