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Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research

Odyssey· Engineering
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Palo Alto, Zurich, LondonFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Odyssey is seeking a deeply technical staff member focused on world models, video generation, multimodal learning, and adjacent areas to push the boundaries of controllable generation and real-world applicability. The role blends research and engineering to move ideas from hypothesis to working prototypes and deployable systems.

Responsibilities

  • - Push what world models can do past current diffusion and transformer approaches with emphasis on conditioning and control (new architectures, training paradigms, or representations of time/dynamics/interactions).
  • - Train conditioning methods and control policies for generation (action, camera, physics, style, long-horizon consistency).
  • - Take ideas from hypothesis through experiment to working prototype grounded in concrete applications.
  • - Design and run experiments, distributed training, and inference systems; ship results into models touched by real users.
  • - Define what "controllable" means in measurable terms; build evaluations for real applications and not just held-out sets.
  • - Work across research, engineering, and product with ownership recognized across teams.
  • - Contribute to the lab’s scientific and engineering culture: publishing where it matters, building enduring tooling, and engaging with the broader community.

Qualifications

  • - Deeply technical background with a track record in world models, generative modeling, video, multimodal learning, large-scale ML systems, or adjacent areas.
  • - Experience with conditioning, controllability, or learned control policies is a strong signal.
  • - Originated impactful work or shipped systems at scale, or both.
  • - Comfortable operating from first principles: problem-definition, experimental design, and minimal viable system to prove feasibility.
  • - Fluent from research to application, ensuring models work under real constraints, content, and latency.
  • - Energetic about ambiguity and creating tools/frameworks in uncharted areas.
  • - Clear perspective on future direction of the field and ability to defend it (not simply “bigger model, more compute”).
  • - Thrive in small, autonomous, tightly collaborating teams.

Skills

Required:world modelsgenerative modelingvideo/multimodal learning
Nice to have:conditioning and controllability

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description.
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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