Distyl AI
Research Engineers, Agents
$150K–$250K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jul 7, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
About the job
Build and deploy reliable agentic AI systems for complex enterprise workflows, bridging applied research with production customer environments.
What you'll do
- Design, prototype, and implement agentic systems and compound AI architectures.
- Build evaluation, observability, and debugging tools to measure and improve agent behavior.
- Integrate agents into customer systems and collaborate with researchers, engineers, and stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Experience building AI systems that use models, tools, retrieval, planning, memory, or multi-step execution for real tasks.
- Strong Python skills and ability to debug complex, stateful systems.
- Ability to design experiments and reason about interactions among prompts, tools, context, evaluators, state, orchestration, and external APIs.
- Comfort translating business workflows into agent designs and explaining capabilities, limitations, tradeoffs, and risks to stakeholders.
Pay
$150K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
Python
AI focus
Research, prototype, evaluate, and deploy agentic AI systems, including architectures for planning, tool use, retrieval, memory, orchestration, and execution.
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