About the role
Who we are Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond. Odyssey’s founders previously pioneered the most complex application of physical AI: self-driving cars. They’ve now brought together a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve, who have made significant contributions to language models (DeepMind Gemini), video models (DeepMind Veo), world models (Wayve GAIA), and autonomous systems (Tesla FSD). Odyssey has raised significant venture capital from GV, Amazon, AMD, EQT, NVIDIA, Natural Capital, In-Q-Tel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Garry Tan, Kyle Vogt, and researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines.
What we're looking for The AI Residency is built for someone who's likely post-MS or equivalent, with real evidence they can do serious ML work, but who isn't yet operating at the level of independent, publication-driving science. You may not have direct experience in world models, generative video, multimodal learning, robotics, or multi-agent systems specifically, what matters more is that you're sharp, relentless, and capable of building that expertise fast, embedded alongside people who already have it. Residents who excel over the course of the program are extended full-time offers to join Odyssey permanently.
What you'll do Work embedded within one of our research pods on a live project, whether that's world simulation, multimodal generation, robotics, or multi-agent systems Take on real, scoped pieces of our roadmap under the guidance of senior researchers and engineers, not isolated side projects Run experiments, build and debug training and evaluation pipelines, and iterate quickly on ideas with real compute behind them Contribute to the models we ship, and see your work show up in systems used by real people Learn the full loop of frontier research: hypothesis, implementation, experimentation, and honest evaluation of what worked and what didn't
