Distyl AI is looking for creative researchers to redefine how software is used by developing AI native technologies for humans & AI to collaborate, powering the operations of the Global Fortune 1000 and solving complex, high-stakes challenges at scale.
Requirements
- Experience Building Modular and Composable Systems: You’ve engineered architectures where components interact dynamically (e.g. graph-based planners, agent orchestration frameworks, workflow engines, or automated pipeline builders).
- 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.).
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Researchers design architectures capable of autonomously generating, assembling, and refining sub-systems.
- This involves developing meta-learning loops, automated pipeline generation, and self-architecting frameworks that reduce the human bottleneck in complex system creation.
- Researchers in Self-Construction study recursive design principles: how systems represent their own construction processes, evaluate them, and evolve.
- They draw from meta-learning, program synthesis, and evolutionary computation to explore what it means for a system to “understand” and redesign itself.
- Their work defines the frontier of self-referential, generative system architectures.
- You’ve engineered architectures where components interact dynamically (e.g. graph-based planners, agent orchestration frameworks, workflow engines, or automated pipeline builders).
- We develop intelligent systems using models rather than training or fine-tuning them.
Other
- creative researchers who don’t just want to drive incremental improvements on benchmarks or optimize an existing process but instead are looking to creatively redefine how software is used.
- Our researchers come from many academic backgrounds but have strong research track records, operate in an AI-native way, and would be bored staying on the rails of a traditional research org.
- 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.
- Biases Towards Showing vs Telling: Our customers want to see the power of AI today vs discuss the most elegant idea that will take 5 years to realize.
- Distyl is a hybrid working environment and requires in office collaboration 3 days a week. We have offices in SF and NYC
