Applied AI Researcher, Benchmarking at Distyl AI

You are a research-focused engineer with a track record of building evaluation frameworks for complex AI systems. You prioritize practical, agentic workflows and have a background in designing reproducible experiments to test model performance. **What makes it worth a look...** Distyl AI offers a base salary between $150,000 and $250,000 plus equity for this hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York. Beyond the competitive pay, they provide full medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have experience designing and running benchmarks or test suites for intelligent systems. * Possess strong skills in data analysis and prototype building using compound AI techniques like ReAct or graph-of-thoughts. * Use tools such as Cursor and Perplexity daily to accelerate your research workflow. * Can demonstrate a history of empirical research results through publications or public projects.