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Head of Policy

Palo Alto

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 25 days ago

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About the role

This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond.
Odyssey's founders previously pioneered the most complex application of physical AI: self-driving cars.
As Head of Policy, you will represent the company in the rooms where the rules for frontier AI are being shaped, and help define how world models should be understood, governed, and deployed.

Develop and maintain Odyssey's positions across the AI governance landscape, aligned with our research direction and company strategy.
Lead Odyssey's engagement with regulators, policymakers, and government partners across the US and more, and represent the company in external forums.
Partner closely with research and product teams to assess the policy implications of what we build.
Stand up the policy function from the ground up, setting the priorities and building the playbook.
Deep fluency in the national-security and geopolitical dynamics of AI, and how policy and global regulation shape what a frontier lab can build and where.
A strong writer who can develop a framework or point of view that shapes how others think.
Energized by building a function from zero
Energized by building a function from zero; setting direction and operating independently before a team exists.

10+ years in policy, government, or a related field, with a focus on AI or other emerging technologies.
Direct experience in or with the US government.

Odyssey https://odyssey.ml is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond.
Odyssey's founders previously pioneered the most complex application of physical AI: self-driving cars. They've now brought together a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve, who have made significant contributions to language models (DeepMind Gemini), video models (DeepMind Veo), world models (Wayve GAIA), and autonomous systems (Tesla FSD).
Odyssey has raised significant venture capital from GV, Amazon, AMD, EQT, NVIDIA, Natural Capital, In-Q-Tel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Garry Tan, Kyle Vogt, and researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines.
Odyssey https://odyssey.ml is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons.
They've now brought together a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve, who have made significant contributions to language models (DeepMind Gemini), video models (DeepMind Veo), world models (Wayve GAIA), and autonomous systems (Tesla FSD).
Odyssey https://odyssey.ml is an

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