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Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineering

Odyssey

Palo Alto, CA · HybridJob$132–411K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$132–411K/yr
Location
Palo Alto, CAHybrid
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Odyssey is hiring a Member of Technical Staff in Security Engineering to protect its research, models, data, and infrastructure. The role owns security priorities, builds practical defenses, and partners with researchers and engineers as the company scales. The engineer will strengthen cloud and development security, establish detection and incident-response capabilities, and lead security assessments and remediation.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Artificial Intelligence, nice to haveRobotics, nice to haveService, nice to haveLinux, nice to haveContainers, nice to haveOnline Gaming, nice to haveIdentity & Access Management (IAM), nice to haveML Infrastructure, nice to haveCI/CD, nice to haveNetworking Technologies, nice to haveRBAC, nice to haveKubernetes, nice to haveSoftware Engineering, requiredSecurity Engineering, requiredThreat Modeling, requiredIncident Response, requiredPrioritization, requiredCommunication, requiredCloud IAM, requiredNetworking, requiredSecrets Management, requiredPenetration Testing, requiredKubernetes Security, requiredAI Safety, nice to have

Qualifications

8+ Years Software Engineering Experience, required

Full job description

Who we are Odyssey 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.

What we're looking for We’re hiring a MTS, Security Engineering to protect Odyssey’s research, models, data, and infrastructure. You’ll own our security priorities, build practical defenses, and work directly with researchers and engineers to keep our systems secure as we scale.

What you'll do

  • Map our most valuable assets, and devise strategies on how people, devices, and services can access, copy, or share them.

  • Identify systematic risks through threat modeling and risk assessment, then build the controls and infrastructure that address them

  • Strengthen security across cloud infrastructure, identity and access, secrets management, and development workflows.

  • Create useful logs, detections, and incident response for account compromise, sensitive downloads, external sharing, and permission changes.

  • Test defenses and recovery procedures, manage external security assessments, and drive remediation.

  • Partner with People and Legal on data-handling practices, onboarding, and offboarding.

Who you are

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep security expertise, including leading company-wide security initiatives independently.

  • Track record of delivery in threat modeling, incident response, and prioritization, with clear communication across leadership, technical and nontechnical teams.

  • Experience with cloud IAM, Linux, containers, networking, secrets, and CI/CD; familiarity with ML infrastructure is a plus.

  • Experience managing penetration tests and external security partners.

  • Clear communicator who works effectively with leadership and technical and nontechnical teams.

  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes security primitives including RBAC, namespaces, network policies, and service accounts

  • Passion for AI safety and the role security engineering plays in building trustworthy AI systems

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,170 open Security Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$132–411K/yr
  • California median$187–284K/yr149 salary ranges
  • US median$146–250K/yr1,016 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $272K, is 17% above the California median midpoint ($231K) — in the middle half of Security Engineering salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 182 open Security Engineering jobs in California and 1,170 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Security Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (886 postings).
Education
209 of the 1,170 open Security Engineering jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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