
Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer at Odyssey. Remote Location: Bay Area. Odyssey. is pioneering AI video you can both watch and interact with in real-time.. Odyssey was founded in late 2023 by . Oliver Cameron. (Cruise, Voyage) and . Jeff Hawke. (Wayve, Oxford AI PhD), two veterans of self-driving cars and AI. They’ve since recruited a world-class team of AI researchers from Waymo, Tesla, Meta, Cruise, Wayve, and Microsoft.. Odyssey has raised significant venture capital from GV, EQT Ventures, Air Street Capital, DCVC, Elad Gil, Garry Tan, Soleio, Jeff Dean, Kyle Vogt, Qasar Younis, Guillermo Rauch, Soumith Chintala, and researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta, and Midjourney. Ed Catmull, the founder of Pixar, serves on Odyssey’s board.. What we're looking for. We’re looking for an exceptional research engineer who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge research and product. You should be excited to take novel ideas from paper to production, and to build the core systems that bring interactive AI video to life. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, moving quickly, and collaborating closely with researchers and engineers to deliver magical user experiences.. What you'll do. You'll develop state-of-the-art world models, enabling AI video you can both watch and interact with in real-time.. You will draw on work from Odyssey's research team to create models which land in our product.. You will diagnose and debug issues with model performance, using these insights to improve the model.. You will design and implement evaluation methods for deployed models, and ensure we have appropriate monitoring and observability systems in place.. You will collaborate closely with Odyssey's product engineering as these models are shipped to enable new creative experiences.. Who you are. You’re a staff-level or greater engineer, with demonstrated experience in ML topics related to world models. This could include world models, or broader generative ML.. You are passionate about taking state-of-the-art research and implementing it into user-facing products.