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 We hire deeply technical staff working in world models, video generation, multimodal, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and adjacent fields. Applied Research sits where the models meet real applications. Whether you're building from scratch, scaling training runs, or working on inference, we hire people who can take an idea and make it real. What you’ll do Push what world models can do past where current diffusion and transformer approaches stop, with an emphasis on conditioning and control. That might mean new architectures, new training paradigms, or new ways of representing time, dynamics, and interaction. Train the conditioning methods and control policies that give real handles on generation: action, camera, physics, style, and the long-horizon consistency that holds them together. Take ideas from hypothesis through experiment to working prototype, grounded in a concrete application. Design and run the experiments, distributed training, and inference systems that make breakthroughs possible, and ship the results into models real users touch. Define what "controllable" means in measurable terms. Build the evals that tell us whether a method holds up in the applications it's meant for, not just on a held-out set. Work shoulder-to-shoulder across research, engineering, and product. Strong work here is recognized by all 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.
