You are an engineer with at least two years of experience building and deploying end-to-end AI applications using Python. You have a track record of moving mode
Work type: hybrid
Location: San Francisco | New York
Salary: $150,000 – $250,000/yr
Type: Full-time
You are an engineer with at least two years of experience building and deploying end-to-end AI applications using Python. You have a track record of moving models beyond experimental phases into production environments where they solve actual business problems. **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. The position includes fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have hands-on experience building applications with LLMs, agents, and retrieval systems. * Write clean, maintainable Python code for production environments. * Are comfortable integrating AI workflows into existing APIs and data platforms. * Can manage 25 to 50 percent travel to work directly with customer teams.
# 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.
# What We Are Looking For
At Distyl, Forward Deployed AI Engineers build and operate AI systems that deliver real business value inside customer environments. This role is for engineers who thrive in ambiguous problem spaces, take ownership of outcomes, and are excited to work directly on production AI systems that must perform reliably under real-world constraints.
Forward Deployed AI Engineers are hands-on builders who design, deploy, and iterate on end-to-end AI systems. They work close to customers to understand real requirements, translate them into concrete system designs, and continuously improve system behavior through evaluation, iteration, and integration. Their focus is not on demos or experiments in isolation, but on making AI systems work in practice.
# Key Responsibilities
We’re grateful for the strong interest in this role. The best way to get your profile in front of our team is to apply directly through our careers page, where all applications are reviewed. Due to the high volume of interest, we’re not able to review or respond to all direct emails or LinkedIn messages. We will be in touch with every applicant once we’ve completed our review, regardless of the decision.