Distyl AI
Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction
$150K–$250K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2025
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
About the job
Research and build systems that autonomously generate, assemble, evaluate, and refine other systems, reducing human effort in complex system creation.
What you'll do
- Design architectures and meta-learning loops for self-constructing systems, including automated pipeline generation and self-architecting frameworks.
- Study recursive design principles using meta-learning, program synthesis, and evolutionary computation.
- Build prototypes and run experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of ideas.
What they ask for
- Experience building modular, composable systems.
- Expertise in compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, and related techniques.
- A demonstrated research track record.
- Strong programming and data analysis skills.
Pay
$150K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts
AI focus
Develop self-constructing and self-referential AI systems that generate and refine subsystems, using models and techniques such as meta-learning, program synthesis, evolutionary computation, and agentic collaboration.
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