AI Engineer

Distyl
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 150,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 2+ yearsSkills: ["Python","LLMs","APIs","Retrieval","Observability"]

Forward Deployed AI Engineers design, deploy, and operate production AI systems inside customer environments. You own system behavior, reliability, and value, building end-to-end AI workflows with models, prompts, agents, tools, and data integrations, while iterating based on live feedback and production metrics.

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Distyl
Distyl
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AI Engineer

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Job Summary

Forward Deployed AI Engineers design, deploy, and operate production AI systems inside customer environments. You own system behavior, reliability, and value, building end-to-end AI workflows with models, prompts, agents, tools, and data integrations, while iterating based on live feedback and production metrics.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and operate AI systems deployed in customer environments, taking ownership of system behavior, reliability, and usefulness in production.
  • •Design and implement compound AI workflows that combine models, prompts, agents, tools, retrieval, evaluation, feedback loops, and execution into coherent production systems aligned with user and SME needs.
  • •Develop clean, maintainable Python services and application logic that integrate AI capabilities into customer workflows, data platforms, APIs, and existing applications.
  • •Operate on live systems by measuring behavior, identifying failure modes, debugging issues, and iterating rapidly to improve quality, reliability, and user value.
  • •Build evaluation frameworks, test cases, feedback mechanisms, and observability patterns that help teams understand and improve AI system performance over time
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •2+ years of software engineering experience.
  • •Ownership mentality for AI systems and production ownership.
  • •Experience building AI systems powered by LLMs or other AI models with multiple components (prompts, agents, tools, retrieval, evaluators, workflows).
  • •Strong engineering fundamentals with clean, maintainable Python and production readiness (versioning, debugging, testing).
  • •Willingness to travel (10–30%).
Experience:2+ yearsAIEnterprise software
Skills:PythonLLMsAPIsRetrievalObservability
Tech Stack:PythonLLMsAPIsRetrievalObservability

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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