Applied AI Researcher, System Discovery

Distyl
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 130,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Research","Communication","Problem-solving"]

The role contributes to discovering and prototyping new AI system archetypes for enterprise use, spanning cross-domain connections, unconventional problem definitions, and human–AI collaboration. You will work on hypothesis-driven research, build prototypes, and demonstrate the impact of GenAI-enabled solutions for Fortune 500 contexts.

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Applied AI Researcher, System Discovery

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Job Summary

The role contributes to discovering and prototyping new AI system archetypes for enterprise use, spanning cross-domain connections, unconventional problem definitions, and human–AI collaboration. You will work on hypothesis-driven research, build prototypes, and demonstrate the impact of GenAI-enabled solutions for Fortune 500 contexts.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Analogous to hypothesis generation in the space of AI for scientific discovery, the System Discovery team focuses on identifying entirely new classes of AI systems. Researchers explore a wide range of architectures, modalities, and compositions to uncover how AI can most effectively reshape work
  • •Draw connections across disparate domains to uncover new system archetypes. Experiment with unconventional problem definitions and develop prototypes that reveal new categories of human–AI collaboration

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 130,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityRemote WorkMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •Experience Building a Wide Breadth of Systems: You’ve built across many paradigms—retrieval pipelines, reasoning agents, evaluation harnesses, multimodal integrations, or workflow graph systems—and can abstract what makes each effective
  • •Experience Building with Models, Not Just Building Models: We develop intelligent systems using models rather than training or fine-tuning them. Ideal candidates have expertise in compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, and associated techniques (ensembling, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts, etc.)
  • •Proven Track Record of Research Results: Whether you’ve published in top journals, posted amazing work on twitter, or somewhere else we want to see what you've done
  • •Uses AI Every Day: Before you can revolutionize someone else’s workflow, you need to revolutionize yours. You should be using tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Perplexity to accelerate your workflow
  • •Strong Programming and Data Analysis Skills: While you might not consider yourself a software engineer you need to be able to build prototypes of your ideas and then perform the experiments to prove the effectiveness to a F500 Head of AI
Experience:AIGenAIEnterprise
Skills:ResearchCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:OpenAIChatGPTCursorPerplexityMultimodalRetrievalGraph-of-thoughtsReAct

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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