Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems

Key Responsibilities

• Design and integrate compound, end-to-end architectures that orchestrate perception, reasoning, planning, and execution.
• Investigate the governing principles behind complex system interactions, focusing on coordination, information flow, and emergent behavior across multiple agents and models.
• Identify the underlying mechanics of robustness, composability, and alignment in intelligent systems.

Who You Are

• Experience building with models, not just building models.
• Expertise in compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, and related techniques (ensembling, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts, etc.).
• Proven track record of research results, whether published in top journals, posted on Twitter, or elsewhere.
• Uses AI every day, utilizing tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Perplexity to accelerate workflow.
• Strong programming and data analysis skills, capable of building prototypes and performing experiments to prove the effectiveness of ideas to a F500 Head of AI.
• Biases towards showing vs telling, focusing on demonstrating the power of AI today rather than discussing long-term ideas.

What We Offer

• Base salary range: $150K – $250K, depending on experience, location, and level.
• Meaningful equity and a comprehensive benefits package, including 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
• Flexible time off, retirement and financial planning benefits, and comprehensive wellness benefits.
• Access to state-of-the-art AI models, generous usage of modern AI tools, and real-world business problems.
• Ownership of high-impact projects across top enterprises in a mission-driven, fast-moving culture that values curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence.

About Distyl AI

Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering with the world’s most ambitious institutions to rearchitect critical operations for the frontier of AI. Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations. We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations — both for our partners and for Distyl itself. Our work spans research into self-constructing systems, the development of the most reliable execution of AI systems, and products that transform mission-critical workflows. As a result, Distyl's technologies affect some of the world's largest operations — from hundreds of millions of consumer interactions to tens of millions of supply chain transactions and millions of patient journeys. Distyl is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, DST Global, and the board-members of 20+ F500s. The results reflect this approach: a 100% production deployment success rate for our customers and one of the few enterprise AI companies to run a profitable business.