Staff Engineer - World Models & Multimodal AI

Odyssey; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Odyssey, an AI lab based in Palo Alto, is pioneering general world models and multimodal AI. The team leverages breakthroughs from DeepMind, Tesla, and OpenAI affiliates to advance conditioning, controllability, and long-horizon interaction with the real world.

We hire deeply technical researchers and engineers who can move ideas from hypothesis to working prototypes, shipping results that users can actually touch. Collaboration across research, engineering, and product is valued and expected.

Qualifications

• Deeply technical with track record in world models or related areas.
• Experience with conditioning, controllability, or learned control policies.

Responsibilities

• Push what world models can do past current diffusion and transformer approaches, focusing on conditioning and control.
• Train conditioning methods and control policies for real-handles on generation: action, camera, physics, style, long-horizon consistency.

Skills

World models

Generative modeling

Video

Multimodal learning

Large-scale ML systems

Conditioning

Controllability

Learned control policies

Job description

Odyssey, an AI lab based in Palo Alto, is pioneering general world models and multimodal AI. The team leverages breakthroughs from DeepMind, Tesla, and OpenAI affiliates to advance conditioning, controllability, and long-horizon interaction with the real world.

We hire deeply technical researchers and engineers who can move ideas from hypothesis to working prototypes, shipping results that users can actually touch. Collaboration across research, engineering, and product is valued and expected.