Applied AI Researcher, Post-Training at Distyl AI

You are a research-focused AI professional with a strong track record of adapting LLMs to enterprise environments through fine-tuning and compound system design. You need a deep, practical understanding of instruction-tuning pipelines and agentic workflows to succeed in this role. **What makes it worth a look...** Distyl AI offers a base salary of $150,000 to $250,000 per year plus equity and full medical coverage for families. You will work in a hybrid capacity from either their San Francisco or New York offices with a requirement of three days per week on-site. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Possess hands-on experience with DPO, RLHF, or LoRA techniques. * Can demonstrate a history of successful research results via publications or public project work. * Build agentic systems using tools like ReAct or graph-of-thoughts. * Use AI tools like Cursor and Perplexity daily to accelerate your own output.