Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction

Distyl
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 130,000 - 250,000Function: Construction, Civil & Site EngineeringSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration","Analytical thinking"]

Join a research-focused team at Distyl AI to design and build autonomous systems that can generate, assemble, and refine sub-systems. Work with meta-learning loops, automated pipelines, and self-architecting frameworks to reduce human bottlenecks in complex system creation, exploring recursive design principles and generative architectures for enterprise AI. Hybrid in-office model with SF presence.

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Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction

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Job Summary

Join a research-focused team at Distyl AI to design and build autonomous systems that can generate, assemble, and refine sub-systems. Work with meta-learning loops, automated pipelines, and self-architecting frameworks to reduce human bottlenecks in complex system creation, exploring recursive design principles and generative architectures for enterprise AI. Hybrid in-office model with SF presence.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Construction, Civil & Site Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design architectures for autonomously generating, assembling, and refining sub-systems, including meta-learning loops and self-architecting frameworks.
  • •Study recursive design principles to understand and redesign system construction processes using meta-learning, program synthesis, and evolutionary computation.
  • •Collaborate on building modular and composable systems with dynamic component interactions, such as graph-based planners or automated pipeline builders.
  • •Develop and prototype AI systems using models rather than solely training or fine-tuning, leveraging ensemble and agentic collaboration techniques.
  • •Demonstrate research results to enterprise stakeholders and use AI tools in daily workflows to accelerate progress and impact.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 130,000 - 250,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEquityCommuter BenefitsMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •Strong programming and data analysis skills with ability to build prototypes and demonstrate effectiveness to stakeholders (e.g., a Fortune 500 Head of AI).
  • •Experience with meta-learning, program synthesis, and evolutionary computation to explore how systems understand and redesign themselves.
  • •Experience building modular/composable architectures and systems that enable dynamic interaction of components (e.g., graph-based planners, workflow engines).
  • •Familiarity with models-based AI development (not just training/fine-tuning) and ensembling/agentic collaboration techniques (e.g., ReAct, graph-of-thoughts).
  • •A track record of research results (publications, notable projects, or public demonstrations) and a habit of using AI tools daily (e.g., ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity).
Experience:AIEnterprise software
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationAnalytical thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:OpenAIMeta-learningProgram synthesisEvolutionary computationReActGraph-of-thoughtsChatGPT

Company Brief

Distyl
Builds enterprise-grade AI systems and integration services (Distillery) to help Fortune 500 companies become AI-native, delivering measurable operational impact across healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, and finance.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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