Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems at Distyl AI

You’re a researcher with a proven track record who prefers building compound AI systems over training models from scratch. You should have strong programming skills to prototype and validate your work for enterprise stakeholders. **What makes it worth a look...** Distyl AI offers a base salary of $150,000 to $250,000 plus equity for this hybrid role in San Francisco or New York. The position includes 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for both you and your dependents. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have hands-on experience with agentic collaboration and techniques like ReAct, ensembling, or graph-of-thoughts. * Use AI tools like Cursor, ChatGPT, or Perplexity daily to accelerate your own research workflow. * Possess the ability to build functional prototypes to prove system effectiveness. * Focus on end-to-end architecture design for LLMs, retrievers, and memory systems.