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Distyl AIDistyl AISan Francisco, CA

Research Engineer, Agents

Research Engineers at Distyl build and productionize reliable agentic AI systems and compound architectures for enterprise workflows. They design agents, develop evaluation frameworks, run experiments on reasoning and failure modes, and integrate into customer environments.

150k – 250k
HybridML Engineering

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, prototype, and implement agentic AI systems that perform reliably across complex enterprise workflows
  • Build compound AI architectures that combine planning, tool use, retrieval, memory, evaluation, orchestration, and execution
  • Investigate how agents reason, coordinate, recover from errors, and interact with external systems under real-world constraints
  • Develop evaluation frameworks that measure agent behavior, task completion, reliability, robustness, and failure modes
  • Create tools and abstractions that make agent behavior easier to observe, debug, test, and improve
  • Partner with AI Researchers to explore new agent architectures and with AI Engineers to harden successful approaches for production use
  • Integrate agents into customer APIs, applications, data platforms, and operational workflows
  • Communicate clearly with internal teams and customer stakeholders about agent capabilities, limitations, tradeoffs, and risks

Requirements

  • Experience building agentic AI systems that use models, tools, retrieval, planning, memory, or multi-step execution to complete real tasks
  • Strong engineering fundamentals: clean, maintainable Python and debugging complex, stateful systems
  • Systems-level reasoning about how prompts, tools, context, evaluators, state, orchestration, and external APIs interact
  • Research-oriented builder: curious about why agents succeed or fail; design experiments to test architectures and behaviors
  • AI-native working style: use AI tools daily to write code, debug, explore designs, analyze traces, and accelerate experimentation
  • Bias towards showing vs. telling: prefer working demonstrations, traces, evaluations, and production behavior
  • Comfort in customer environments: translate ambiguous business workflows into concrete agent designs and explain system behavior to stakeholders
  • Ownership mentality: responsibility for whether an agentic system performs reliably, safely, and usefully in production

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base salary range: $150000 – $250000, depending on experience, location, and level
  • Meaningful equity
  • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
  • 401(k) with additional perks (e.g., commuter benefits, in‑office lunch)
  • Access to state‑of‑the‑art models, generous usage of modern AI tools, and real‑world business problems
  • Ownership of high‑impact projects across top enterprises
  • Mission‑driven, fast‑moving culture that prizes curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence

Skills

PythonAgentic Ai SystemsCompound Ai ArchitecturesPlanningTool UseRetrievalMemoryEvaluation FrameworksOrchestrationMulti-Step ExecutionPrompt EngineeringDebuggingExperiment Design

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