Odyssey · 2 months ago
Member of Technical Staff, Research Scientist
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/StaffOdyssey is an AI lab pioneering general-purpose world models, aiming to unlock new consumer, enterprise, and intelligence applications. They are seeking a deeply technical and creative researcher to pursue original research and develop algorithms that redefine the capabilities of these models.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Graphic DesignVirtual Reality
Responsibilities
Pursue original research into the foundations of world models: representation, temporal coherence, causality, control, and long-horizon imagination
Formulate and own an independent research agenda: identifying unsolved questions, designing hypotheses, and developing algorithms that could redefine what these models can do
Explore new architectures, learning objectives, and training paradigms that move beyond today’s diffusion and transformer approaches
Develop conceptual frameworks and experimental systems that deepen our understanding of how models perceive and respond to user intent and real-world dynamics
Collaborate closely with our engineering and infrastructure teams to turn foundational insights into prototypes that demonstrate new capabilities, not just incremental improvements
Contribute to the scientific culture of the lab: publishing, mentoring, and engaging with the broader research community to shape the field of general-purpose world models
Qualification
Required
Deep expertise in machine learning
Track record of original contributions to generative modeling, video synthesis, multimodal learning, or related areas
Experience in conducting long-horizon, exploratory research that produces conceptual and algorithmic breakthroughs beyond scaling improvements alone
Comfortable working from first principles: defining new problems, designing experiments to test them, and building minimal systems to prove what's possible
Motivated by understanding as much as by performance: care about how and why models work, not only that they do
Thrives in a small, focused lab environment that values autonomy, deep thinking, and tight research collaboration
Passionate about establishing the scientific underpinnings of a new medium—helping define how AI perceives, learns, and interacts through pixels over the next decade
Company
Odyssey
Odyssey is an AI platform that enables storytellers to create cinematic video content and editable 3D scenes using visual AI technology.
Founded in 2023
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$27MKey Investors
EQT VenturesGoogle Ventures
2024-11-13Series A· $18M
2024-07-12Seed· $9M
Leadership Team
Oliver Cameron
Co-Founder & CEO
Jeff Hawke
Co-founder & CTO
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