Distyl AI
Research Engineers, Agents
San Francisco
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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.
- Research Engineers operate at the intersection of applied research, systems engineering, and customer-facing deployment.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Develop evaluation frameworks that measure agent behavior, task completion, reliability, robustness, and failure modes
- Create tools and abstractions that make agent behavior easier to observe, debug, test, and improve
- Partner with AI Researchers to explore new agent architectures and with AI Engineers to harden successful approaches for production use
- We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations - both for our partners and for Distyl itself.
- Distyl is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, DST Global, and the board-members of 20+ F500s.
Benefits
- Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations.
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