Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer
Odyssey, Palo Alto +1
What you will do
What you'll do
- Embed closely with strategic customers to understand their workflows, technical constraints, data, and highest-value problems.
- Identify where world models can create a step-change in capability, particularly across robotics, simulation, autonomy, training, interactive media, and other physical or visual domains.
- Translate loosely defined customer goals into concrete research and engineering problems, technical hypotheses, prototypes, and deployment plans.
- Adapt and extend Odyssey’s models for specific applications through fine-tuning, post-training, conditioning, controllability, inference optimization, and learned control policies.
- Build end-to-end prototypes that connect world models to customer data, tools, simulators, hardware, and production systems.
- Design application-specific evaluations that measure whether a model is useful, controllable, consistent, and reliable under real operating conditions.
- Diagnose failures in deployed systems and determine whether the solution belongs in data, modeling, training, inference, evaluation, or product design.