Distyl AI
AI Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$13,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- 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.
- 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.
- AI Engineers are expected to make AI systems work in practice: with users, data, constraints, and accountability for production outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate AI systems deployed in customer environments, taking ownership of system behavior, reliability, and usefulness in production
- Design and implement compound AI workflows that combine models, prompts, agents, tools, retrieval, evaluation, feedback loops, and execution into coherent production systems aligned with user and SME needs
- Develop clean, maintainable Python services and application logic that integrate AI capabilities into customer workflows, data platforms, APIs, and existing applications
- Build evaluation frameworks, test cases, feedback mechanisms, and observability patterns that help teams understand and improve AI system performance over time
- Collaborate with other AI Engineers, AI Strategists, and other Distillers to make pragmatic system design decisions that balance speed, robustness, maintainability, and customer impact
- Take accountability for the production outcomes of the components, workflows, and systems you build
- Strong engineering fundamentals. You write clean, maintainable Python and are comfortable building production software systems. You understand core engineering concepts like versioning, debugging, testing, performance, code review, and production readiness
- We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations - both for our partners and for Distyl itself.
Requirements
- You have built applications powered by LLMs or other AI models and are comfortable composing multiple components - prompts, agents, tools, retrieval, evaluators, workflows, and integrations - into end-to-end systems.
- Comfort in customer environments.
- You are able to work directly with customer teams, ask good questions, and adapt quickly to new domains.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $180K - $250K, depending on experience, location, and level. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for meaningful equity, along with a comprehensive benefits package
Benefits
- In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for meaningful equity, along with a comprehensive benefits package
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Flexible time off
- Retirement and financial planning benefits, including access to pre-tax HSA, FSA, and commuter accounts, 401(k), and financial coaching resources
- Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations.
Company info
- Travel is typically 10-30%, depending on the project, customer needs, and your role on the engagement WHAT WE OFFER - The base salary range for this role is $180K - $250K, depending on experience, location, and level.
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