Odyssey

Technical Recruiter

• Take ownership of the entire recruiting lifecycle for research and engineering roles—including ML research, robotics, applied ML, infrastructure, and systems engineering.
• Collaborate directly with founders, research leads, and engineering managers to define role requirements, set the technical bar, and design hiring strategies for each search.
• Source, engage, and successfully close senior researchers and engineers in a competitive market where many candidates have offers from top frontier labs.
• Develop creative, technically informed outreach strategies, such as leveraging paper authorship, conference presentations, GitHub contributions, and lab alumni networks, to attract passive candidates who may not respond to standard recruiter messages.
• Design and continuously refine calibrated technical interview loops, research interviews, screening processes, and debrief procedures for both research and engineering tracks.
• Integrate AI tools (such as Claude, OpenAI, etc.) into your core workflow for sourcing, outreach, screening, and operations.
• Manage the end-to-end candidate experience, ensuring a technically credible and high-touch process for every hire.

Principal Technical Recruiter

Recruitment

Senior Talent Acquisition, Engineering

Data Scientist

• Define data acquisition strategy across multimodal sources - video, audio, egocentric capture, simulation, robotic sensor data.
• Close and manage data partnerships including evaluation, negotiation and relationship management.
• Own data mix and composition, working closely with research and product teams.
• Identify data gaps preemptively and design systems for analysis and feedback.
• Build and scale the data organization to fit company needs from a team to potentially hundreds of people.
• Own and manage a data operations budget in the tens of millions.

Head of Data Operations

Program Manager

• Provide acquisition and program management support in accordance with FAR, DoDI 5000.02, and applicable Air Force guidance
• Support development and maintenance of acquisition reports, briefings, schedules, and program documentation
• Assist Program Managers and IPT Leads with program execution, acquisition planning, and risk management activities
• Support cost, schedule, and performance management efforts across acquisition and development programs
• Review and support acquisition documentation including RFPs, SRDs, SOWs, CDRLs, LCSPs, APBs, and milestone briefings
• Support implementation and execution of acquisition and development activities with Government and contractor teams
• Assist with development of acquisition strategies, source selection documentation, and program risk assessments
• Review contractor deliverables, schedules, and integration activities
• Support Mission Planning Environment (MPE) activities, software development evaluations, and operational planning efforts
• Provide support for EVM analysis, funding documentation, and acquisition reporting activities

Principal Program Manager

Product Manager

• Own and drive the product roadmap across developer experience, platform abstractions, and research.
• Define product priorities grounded in real developer behavior.
• Ensure clarity and alignment across teams on what is being built and why.
• Study how developers actually use Odyssey; what they build, where they struggle, and what breaks.
• Partner directly with customers and external developers; run case studies and deep dives into real applications.
• Turn observed usage into concrete product, system, and model improvements.
• Drive execution across research, applied engineering, and platform teams.
• Set clear goals, milestones, and success metrics; ensure accountability and follow-through.
• Bring structure and operating cadence to complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Translate user and product signals into insights that meaningfully inform research direction and prioritization.
• Help shape how world models are productized and understood, grounded in real behavior rather than theory.
• Identify leverage points where small product or system changes unlock outsized developer success.

Head of Product

• Own end-to-end interview scheduling across all open roles
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first touchpoint through offer
• Manage and maintain the ATS (Ashby)
• Coordinate with Rippling and internal systems for onboarding logistics
• Track and report on recruiting metrics
• Support employer branding efforts
• Manage logistics for recruiting events, on-site interviews, and candidate travel
• Proactively identify process improvements

Recruiting Coordinator

Capture Manager

• Leadership and execution for the success of all assigned Aviation efforts.
• Identify and evaluate desirable opportunities for the corporate funnel and pipeline.
• Gather, assess, and validate customer requirements.
• Identify customer needs, concerns, and constraints that impact winning solution.
• Translate requirements into a win strategy, advance strategy with a strong value proposition and differentiate bid elements based on compelling features and benefits
• Support the proposal development process by providing necessary capture artifacts to the proposal team and participate in the Kickoff and color team reviews
• Define or oversee conceptual solution and strategies for winning each opportunity including the initial theming/storyboarding efforts and transition the capture artifacts to the assigned proposal team.
• Develop, document and execute the capture management plan and associated strategies for each capture program including but not limited to: conducting requirement analysis, competitive analysis, capability assessments and gap analyses for capture programs, prime vs sub analysis, price to win analysis, teaming plan, call plan, and other components of a successful capture program.
• Conduct timely reviews of programs throughout the capture lifecycle, including stage reviews to the Executive Leadership team and functional managers.
• Analyze post award feedback and recommend improvements to the capture process.
• Develop and document customer, partner, and competitor profiles.
• Significantly contribute to meeting or exceeding the annual sales and profitability goals as established by the company each year.
• Work with the Executive Director, on strategies for short-, mid- and long-term goals and brief the Executive Leadership team at offsite meetings.
• Contribute to expanding Odyssey’s reputation and industry engagement.

Senior Capture Manager – Aviation Group

Security Engineer

• Conduct comprehensive security assessments and vulnerability assessments of applications.
• Perform software security evaluations, including code reviews and secure coding verification.
• Utilize penetration testing tools to identify and validate vulnerabilities.
• Develop and maintain threat models and execute security risk assessments.
• Evaluate system security controls, identify vulnerabilities, and propose mitigation strategies.
• Review applications against established vulnerability standards (OWASP Top 10).
• Ensure deliverables align with DoD and Air Force cybersecurity policies.
• Stay up to date with emerging security advisories and regulations.
• Provide expert guidance on secure design principles and cloud security best practices.
• Prepare detailed reports including assessment results and vulnerability findings.

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

• Run at data plans with loose requirements from research. Turn fuzzy and disparate data requests into scoped, sequenced acquisition plans with quality bars, timelines, and clear data parameters
• Manage a multitude of vendors across verticals and data types, maintain relationships and negotiate commercials favorable to Odyssey
• Manage the human teams (experience with contractors a big plus) that acquire proprietary data and establish and ensure quality measures
• Stand up and own the weekly data-needs review and forecast. Force-prioritize when necessary and surface the trade-offs to leadership.
• Embed in research planning. Flag data risks four to six weeks ahead of when they would hit a model run.
• Define and track quality and throughput metrics across active data programs. Redline and QA batches that slip and close the loop with vendors.
• Partner with Research on data requirements while also running independently at frontier data mix delivery
• Drive program retrospectives – what data moved which evals, at what cost, and what we should repeat.