Odysseyml

Odysseyml

Member of Operations Staff, Strategic Finance

Palo Alto · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
Cloud PlatformsFinancial ModelingForecastingProcurementRoboticsResearchLeadershipCommunication

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.

Responsibilities

  • Own the financial engine of Odyssey's compute-intensive business, operating as a strategic lead for compute and capital-allocation strategy.
  • Drive compute acquisition and procurement, negotiating deal terms for multi-hundred-million-scale commitments while balancing frontier ambition against balance-sheet risk.
  • Build rigorous financial models and scalable frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, funding options, tradeoffs, and risk.
  • Lead high-priority, cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution, bringing strong judgment, ownership, and communication in fast-moving situations.
  • Build a 0-1 AI-native finance organization, establishing the controls, reporting, and liquidity management appropriate for lumpy, large-scale capital commitments.
  • Work closely with the executive and technical teams and support and partner with compute procurement and strategy lead with the allocation of capacity between training and inference, the company's primary capital deployment decision.
  • Manage multi-year, multi-hundred-million-scale compute commitments, balancing frontier ambition against balance sheet.
  • Build and own financial models for exponential, non-linear growth, planning across a cone of uncertainty rather than a single forecast.
  • Understand and model unit economics of training and serving models, and partner on pricing across platform/API and application offerings.
  • Build the narrative, models, and diligence for capital raises, and support investor, partner, and board relationships.

Requirements

  • Deep experience in capital-intensive or infrastructure-heavy sectors (scaled AI companies, hyperscalers, neoclouds, or big labs).
  • Strong capital-markets track record with sophisticated investors and boards.

Company info

  • 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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