Distyl AI
Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems
$150K–$250K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2025
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
About the job
Designs and researches compound AI systems that coordinate models and other components to perform reliably across dynamic enterprise workflows.
What you'll do
- Integrate LLMs, retrievers, evaluators, memory systems, and execution agents into robust, scalable systems.
- Study coordination, information flow, and emergent behavior across agents and models.
- Build prototypes and run experiments to demonstrate system effectiveness.
What they ask for
- Strong research track record, demonstrated through published or otherwise shared research results.
- Expertise in compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, and related techniques.
- Strong programming and data analysis skills to build prototypes and conduct experiments.
- Uses AI tools in everyday work.
Pay
$150K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts
AI focus
Research and develop compound AI systems for enterprise workflows, focusing on orchestration, robustness, composability, alignment, and agent collaboration; use models rather than train or fine-tune them.
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