Enterprise Self-Improving AI Researcher

Distyl; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Flexible time off

401(k) + HSA

Wellness benefits

In-office lunches

Access to AI models

High-impact projects

Mission-driven culture

Job summary

Distyl AI is seeking researchers to push the envelope of enterprise AI, building systems that redefine how software is used rather than incremental improvements. You’ll shape self-improving architectures that learn from their performance and adapt in real time.

Our team values curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence. Distyl offers meaningful equity, comprehensive benefits, and a hybrid work model with in-office collaboration in New York and San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Experience building feedback-driven systems that monitor, score, and adapt.
• Experience with compound AI systems and agentic techniques (Ensembling, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts).
• Proven track record of research results (publications, notable work).
• Active use of AI tools daily (e.g., ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity).
• Strong programming and data analysis skills; able to prototype and run experiments.
• Bias towards showing results over theoretical discussions.

Responsibilities

• The System Self-Improvement team builds architectures that continuously evaluate and enhance their own performance.
• Researchers design feedback-driven systems capable of detecting weaknesses, generating corrective hypotheses, and implementing improvements.

Skills

Feedback-driven systems

Model-based AI

Research results

Daily AI usage

Programming & data analysis

Show-not-tell bias

Job description

Distyl AI is seeking researchers to push the envelope of enterprise AI, building systems that redefine how software is used rather than incremental improvements. You’ll shape self-improving architectures that learn from their performance and adapt in real time.

Our team values curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence. Distyl offers meaningful equity, comprehensive benefits, and a hybrid work model with in-office collaboration in New York and San Francisco.