Odyssey
Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research
Palo Alto +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto
Zurich
London
About the job
Develop and apply controllable world models, taking research ideas through experiments and prototypes into systems used in real applications.
What you'll do
- Develop architectures, training methods, conditioning, and control policies for world models.
- Design and run experiments, distributed training, inference systems, and evaluations; ship results into user-facing models.
- Collaborate across research, engineering, and product, and contribute to scientific and engineering culture.
What they ask for
- Deep technical track record in world models, generative modeling, video, multimodal learning, large-scale ML systems, or an adjacent area.
- Ability to define problems, design experiments, and build prototypes from first principles.
- Ability to connect research to real-world application constraints, including latency.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous areas and building tools and workflows as needed.
Nice to have
- Experience with conditioning, controllability, or learned control policies.
- Have originated field-advancing work or shipped systems at scale.
Tools
diffusion, transformer
AI focus
Research and develop controllable, multimodal world models, including conditioning methods, control policies, long-horizon consistency, and evaluation for applications.
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