Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems

Distyl AI • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Distyl AI develops AI native technologies for humans & AI to collaborate to power the operations of the Global Fortune 1000. In just 24 months, we’ve rapidly grown to partner with some of the world’s largest enterprises—including F100 telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and retail companies—delivering multiple AI deployments with $100M+ impact. Our platform, Distillery, along with our team of AI Engineers, Researchers, and Strategists, is pioneering AI-native systems of work, solving the most complex, high-stakes challenges at scale. Distyl is founded and led by proven leaders from companies like Palantir, Apple, and top national laboratories. We work in deep partnership with OpenAI, jointly going-to-market at the largest enterprises and collaborating evaluating and testing the latest models. Backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, Coatue, industry leaders like Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO), as well as board members of over 20+ F500s, Distyl is building the future of AI-powered enterprise operations.

Requirements

• Experience Building with Models, Not Just Building Models: Expertise in compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, and associated techniques (ensembling, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts, etc.).
• Proven Track Record of Research Results: Published in top journals or showcased work on platforms like Twitter.
• Uses AI Every Day: Familiarity with tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Perplexity to accelerate workflow.
• Strong Programming and Data Analysis Skills: Ability to build prototypes and perform experiments.
• Biases Towards Showing vs Telling: Focus on demonstrating the power of AI today.

Responsibilities

• Designing compound, end-to-end architectures that orchestrate perception, reasoning, planning, and execution.
• Integrating diverse components (LLMs, retrievers, evaluators, memory systems, and execution agents) into robust, scalable systems that perform reliably across dynamic enterprise workflows.
• Investigating the governing principles behind complex system interactions.
• Studying coordination, information flow, and emergent behavior across multiple agents and models.
• Identifying the underlying mechanics of robustness, composability, and alignment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package, including equity options.
• Medical/dental/vision covered at 100% for you and your dependents.
• 401K plan.
• Commuter benefits.
• Lunch provided in office.
• Collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees