Architecting the AI-Native Enterprise. Distyl partners with the most ambitious enterprises to design and operationalize their AI transformations. Backed by Khosla, Lightspeed and Peak XV.
About the role
Design, prototype, and implement agentic AI systems that perform reliably across complex enterprise workflows Build compound AI architectures that combine planning, tool use, retrieval, memory, evaluation, orchestration, and execution
What they're looking for
- Experience Building Agentic Systems: You have built AI systems that use models, tools, retrieval, planning, memory, or multi-step execution to complete real tasks
- Strong Engineering Fundamentals: You write clean, maintainable Python and are comfortable debugging complex, stateful systems
- Systems-Level Reasoning: You think holistically about how prompts, tools, context, evaluators, state, orchestration, and external APIs interact
- Research-Oriented Builder: You are curious about why agents succeed or fail, and you can design experiments to test different architectures and behaviors
- AI-Native Working Style: You use AI tools daily to write code, debug systems, explore designs, analyze traces, and accelerate experimentation
- Bias Towards Showing vs. Telling: You prefer working demonstrations, traces, evaluations, and production behavior over abstract descriptions
More about this role
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.
At Distyl, Research Engineers build the bridge between frontier AI research and production systems that deliver real business value. This role is for engineers who are excited to investigate how AI systems should be designed, rapidly...
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