Distyl AI
AI Engineer
$180K–$250K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build, deploy, and operate production AI systems in customer environments, improving their reliability and usefulness in real business workflows.
What you'll do
- Design and implement end-to-end AI workflows integrating models, prompts, agents, tools, retrieval, evaluation, and feedback.
- Develop Python services and integrate AI capabilities with customer workflows, data platforms, APIs, and applications.
- Monitor production behavior, debug failures, and improve systems through evaluation, feedback, and iteration.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience building end-to-end applications powered by LLMs or other AI models.
- Strong Python and production software engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, versioning, and performance.
- Willingness to travel; typically 10–30%, depending on the project, customer needs, and role.
Pay
$180K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
Python, LLMs
AI focus
Build and operate production AI systems, including compound workflows with models, agents, retrieval, evaluation, and integrations; use AI tools in engineering work.
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