Distyl AI
Applied AI Researcher, System Discovery
$150K–$250K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2025
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
About the job
Researches and prototypes new classes of AI systems and human–AI collaboration to reshape enterprise work.
What you'll do
- Explore architectures, modalities, and system compositions to identify new AI system archetypes.
- Connect ideas across domains and experiment with unconventional problem definitions.
- Build prototypes and run experiments demonstrating the effectiveness of new systems.
What they ask for
- Broad experience building AI systems across multiple paradigms.
- Expertise in compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, and related techniques.
- A track record of research results or notable work.
- Strong programming and data analysis skills.
Pay
$150K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts
AI focus
Discovering and prototyping new AI system architectures and forms of human–AI collaboration using models, rather than training or fine-tuning them.
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