Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Improvement

Key Responsibilities

• Build architectures that continuously evaluate and enhance their own performance.
• Design feedback-driven systems capable of detecting weaknesses, generating corrective hypotheses, and implementing their own improvements through reflection, retraining, or workflow adaptation.
• Study how systems can form self-models—understanding when, why, and how they succeed or fail.
• Explore reflective reasoning, reward modeling, and self-evaluation techniques to enable autonomous evolution.
• Bridge reinforcement learning, interpretability, and meta-optimization to pioneer continuously learning enterprise systems.

Who You Are

• Experience building feedback-driven systems.
• Experience building with models, not just building models.
• Ideal candidates have expertise in compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, and associated techniques (ensembling, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts, etc.).
• Promised track record of research results.
• Uses AI every day.
• Strong programming and data analysis skills.
• Biases towards showing vs telling.

What We Offer

• Base salary range: $150K – $250K, depending on experience, location, and level.
• Meaningful equity and comprehensive benefits package.
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents.
• Flexible time off and retirement and financial planning benefits.
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including physical fitness, mental well-being, and fertility and family-building 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.
• 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.