Odyssey
Member of Technical Staff, Research
Palo Alto +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto
Zurich
London
About the job
Develop and advance general world models by researching new methods, building prototypes, and delivering them in usable models.
What you'll do
- Develop new architectures, training paradigms, or representations for time, dynamics, and interaction in world models.
- Design and run experiments, distributed training, and inference systems; take research ideas through prototypes and into models used by people.
- Collaborate across research and engineering, contribute to scientific and engineering culture, and engage with the broader community.
What they ask for
- Track record in generative modelling, multimodal learning, model-based RL, computer vision, or a similar area.
- Ability to define research problems, design experiments, and build minimal systems to test ideas.
- Comfort working in ambiguous areas and building tools or frameworks as needed.
- At least three days per week in the office.
Tools
diffusion, transformer
AI focus
Research and build causal, multimodal world models that predict and interact with the world over long horizons.
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