Autonomous AI Researcher—Self-Constructing Systems

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San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+
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Equity
Medical insurance (100% for employee)
Dental insurance (100% for employee)
Vision insurance (100% for employee)
401(k)
Commuter benefits
In-office lunch

Job summary

Distyl in San Francisco is seeking an Applied AI Researcher for the System Self-Construction team. You will design architectures enabling autonomous generation and refinement of sub-systems, pushing the frontier of self-constructing AI. Hybrid in-office collaboration is required 3+ days a week.

The role emphasizes strong research credentials, experience with meta-learning, and building prototypes to validate ideas in enterprise settings.

Qualifications

  • Strong research track record with publications or notable work.
  • Experience with meta-learning, program synthesis, or evolutionary computation.
  • Ability to prototype ideas and run experiments to prove effectiveness.

Responsibilities

  • Design architectures for autonomously generating, assembling, and refining sub-systems.
  • Study recursive design principles and how systems understand and redesign themselves.

Skills

Research track record
AI systems design
Meta-learning
Program synthesis
Graph-of-thoughts
Prototyping ideas
Data analysis
Python/AI tooling

Job description

Distyl in San Francisco is seeking an Applied AI Researcher for the System Self-Construction team. You will design architectures enabling autonomous generation and refinement of sub-systems, pushing the frontier of self-constructing AI. Hybrid in-office collaboration is required 3+ days a week.

The role emphasizes strong research credentials, experience with meta-learning, and building prototypes to validate ideas in enterprise settings.

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