Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction

Distyl AI • San Francisco, CA

72d

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 Modular and Composable Systems.
• Experience Building with Models, Not Just Building Models.
• Proven Track Record of Research Results.
• Uses AI Every Day.
• Strong Programming and Data Analysis Skills.
• Biases Towards Showing vs Telling.

Responsibilities

• Build systems that can build other systems.
• Design architectures capable of autonomously generating, assembling, and refining sub-systems.
• Develop meta-learning loops, automated pipeline generation, and self-architecting frameworks.
• Study recursive design principles and how systems represent their own construction processes.
• Explore meta-learning, program synthesis, and evolutionary computation.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Equity options.
• Medical/dental/vision covered at 100% for you and your dependents.
• 401K plan.
• Commuter benefits.
• Lunch provided in office.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees