Distyl · 3 months ago
Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior LevelDistyl is a company that develops AI native technologies for collaboration between humans and AI, aiming to transform enterprise operations. They are seeking an Applied AI Researcher to creatively redefine software usage, focusing on building systems that autonomously generate and refine sub-systems, while exploring self-referential and generative architectures.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
The System Self-Construction team builds systems that can build other systems. 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
Qualification
Required
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.)
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
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
Benefits
Competitive salary and benefits package, including equity options
Medical/dental/vision covered at 100% for you and your dependents
401K plan
Commuter benefits
Lunch provided in office
Company
Distyl
Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future.
Founded in 2022
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$202MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners
2025-09-22Series B· $175M
2024-09-24Series A· $20M
2023-04-13Seed· $7M
Leadership Team
Arjun Prakash
Co-Founder, CEO
Derek Ho
Co-Founder, COO
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