Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

Forward Deployed Engineers bring Odyssey's world models into high-impact, real-world environments. You will work with customers to translate problems into research questions and build working systems around models.

What you will do

• Embed closely with strategic customers to understand workflows, technical constraints, data, and problems.
• Identify where world models can create a step-change in capability.
• Translate customer goals into research and engineering problems, hypotheses, prototypes, and deployment plans.
• Adapt and extend Odyssey's models through fine-tuning, post-training, conditioning, controllability, inference optimization, and learned control policies.
• Build end-to-end prototypes connecting world models to customer data, tools, simulators, hardware, and production systems.
• Design application-specific evaluations.
• Diagnose failures in deployed systems.
• Create feedback loops between customer deployments and core research teams.
• Work with researchers, engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.
• Develop reusable infrastructure, methods, and playbooks.

Required qualifications

• Experience in world models, generative video, multimodal learning, robotics, autonomous systems, reinforcement learning, computer vision, or large-scale machine learning.
• Ability to move from an ambiguous problem to an experiment, prototype, and deployed system.
• Ability to modify models and build systems across training, post-training, inference, data pipelines, evaluation, and application code.
• Skilled at working from first principles.
• Ability to work across the research-to-production gap.
• Effective with customers and external partners.
• Able to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar domains.
• Comfortable operating in high-trust, high-autonomy environments.
• Willing to spend meaningful time working directly with customers, including travel or periods embedded with partner teams.

About the company

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. The founders previously pioneered the most complex application of physical AI: self-driving cars.