Jobs at Odyssey (odyssey.ml)

The role involves defining and pursuing a research project in general-purpose world models, collaborating with teams to advance visual AI.

Lead strategic, high-sensitivity research recruiting: partner with research leadership to define talent needs, map the research landscape, build long-term candidate relationships, run senior-level searches, advise on positioning and compensation, and establish talent intelligence and recruiting standards.

Provides high-trust executive support to the CTO, managing calendars, travel, logistics, meetings, events, commitments, and cross-functional follow-through. The role also handles ambiguous special projects, improves executive and organizational workflows, and coordinates board, investor, and external engagements across multiple time zones. Success requires exceptional organization, discretion, communication, ownership, and comfort working in a fast-paced AI startup.

Lead the ML platform and infrastructure (data, evaluation, compute). Own roadmap, build and scale distributed engineering teams, partner with Research and Applied ML to prioritize work, remain technically hands-on, and report to the CTO.

Lead and grow Odyssey's Frontier ML research group, set and execute the research agenda across world simulation, multimodality, robotics, and multi-agent systems, run experiments hands-on, define publication strategy, and represent Odyssey externally.