Distyl AI
Research Engineers, Data
$150K–$250K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jul 7, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
About the job
Build and deploy data systems, pipelines, and evaluation workflows that help enterprise AI systems use reliable domain-specific data in production.
What you'll do
- Build data pipelines and quality frameworks for collecting, transforming, labeling, and evaluating AI data.
- Create tools and workflows that turn customer data into usable context for retrieval, evaluation, reasoning, and execution.
- Collaborate with AI teams and customer stakeholders to assess data needs, measure system behavior, and improve performance.
What they ask for
- Experience building data systems for AI, such as pipelines, evaluation datasets, labeling workflows, or retrieval corpora.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with data modeling and production pipeline reliability fundamentals.
- Comfort investigating data quality and working with messy enterprise datasets and changing requirements.
- Ability to work with customer teams and communicate data assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs.
Pay
$150K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL
AI focus
Build data infrastructure and evaluation workflows for AI systems, including synthetic data, annotation, feedback loops, and production performance measurement.
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