# Research Engineers, Agents at Distyl

- Company: Distyl
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://distyl.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/distyl/462996c2-f91d-4f21-bf77-7215a0be3d73
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/distyl-research-engineers-agents/

## 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

Tags: Research