Who you are

• Deeply technical, with experience in world models, generative video, multimodal learning, robotics, autonomous systems, reinforcement learning, computer vision, or large-scale machine learning.
• An unusually strong builder. You can move from an ambiguous problem to an experiment, prototype, and deployed system without waiting for a detailed specification.
• Comfortable modifying models as well as building the systems around them. You can work across training, post-training, inference, data pipelines, evaluation, and application code.
• Skilled at working from first principles. You can distinguish a genuine research problem from an integration problem and design the right intervention for each.
• Fluent across the research-to-production gap. You care why a model works, but also whether it works reliably on real data, at acceptable latency, within operational constraints.
• Effective with customers and external partners. You listen carefully, develop a precise understanding of their needs, and establish credibility through technical depth and execution.
• Able to manage competing priorities without losing sight of the underlying research opportunity or customer outcome.
• Energized by unfamiliar domains. You can quickly learn the relevant workflows, terminology, constraints, and failure modes.
• Comfortable operating in high-trust, high-autonomy environments where the path is unclear and iteration speed matters.
• Willing to spend meaningful time working directly with customers, including travel or periods embedded with partner teams when necessary.
• Excited to help define how general world models become useful across industries—not someday, but in working systems today.

What success looks like

• Customers use systems you helped build to do something that was previously impossible or impractical.
• Deployment failures become insights that improve Odyssey’s underlying models and research direction.
• One-off prototypes evolve into reusable capabilities, evaluation methods, and infrastructure.
• You earn the trust of both Odyssey’s core researchers and the technical teams deploying our models.
• Your work creates a tight, compounding loop between frontier research and real-world use.

Forward Deployed Engineers should also expect to work on-site with customers when the project benefits from close collaboration.

Our staff is expected to be in office at least three times a week. A lot of our progress comes from working through problems together, and we want you in the room for that.

Compensation: $164.8K - $508K