Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction at Distyl AI

Ideal for an experienced AI researcher who focuses on building modular agentic systems and meta-learning loops rather than traditional model training. You need a strong track record of engineering autonomous architectures that prove concepts through hands-on prototyping and data analysis. **What makes it worth a look...** Distyl AI offers a base salary of $150,000 to $250,000 per year plus equity for this hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York. You get 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents while working on production-level deployment problems for major enterprise clients. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have experience building agentic workflows like graph-based planners or orchestration frameworks. * Use AI tools like Cursor and Perplexity daily to accelerate your own development. * Can build functional prototypes to prove research effectiveness to enterprise stakeholders. * Possess technical expertise in meta-learning, program synthesis, or evolutionary computation.