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2025-10-11 Distyl

AI Platform Engineer

About Distyl AI<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://distyl.ai/">Distyl AI</a> develops AI native technologies for humans & AI to collaborate to power the operations of the Global Fortune 1000.In just 24 months, we’ve rapidly grown to partner with some of the world’s largest enterprises—including F100 telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and retail companies—delivering multiple AI deployments with $100M+ impact. Our platform, Distillery, along with our team of AI Engineers, Researchers, and Strategists, is pioneering AI-native systems of work, solving the most complex, high-stakes challenges at scale.Distyl is founded and led by proven leaders from companies like Palantir, Apple, and top national laboratories. We work in deep partnership with OpenAI, jointly going-to-market at the largest enterprises and collaborating evaluating and testing the latest models. Backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, Coatue, industry leaders like Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO), as well as board members of over 20+ F500s, Distyl is building the future of AI-powered enterprise operations.What You'll DoAs an AI Platform Engineer, you will help design, build, and optimize Distillery—our AI-native platform that powers real-world enterprise AI systems for diverse F500 workflows.Your role will involve developing scalable AI infrastructure, ensuring system reliability, and collaborating with engineers and business leaders to solve some of the most complex AI deployment challenges.Key ResponsibilitiesBuild & Scale AI-Native Infrastructure: Develop and refine a platform where AI builds, optimizes, and operates AI-powered workflows. Define how AI automation integrates into traditional enterprise infrastructure.Develop Cloud-Native Microservices & Scalable AI Systems: Design and build secure, high-performance backend services deployed across AWS/GCP/Azure or on-prem Kubernetes environments. Build using Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and modern DevOps tools to develop scalable, reliable AI infrastructure.Optimize System Performance & Reliability: Ensure high-availability, security, and observability of AI-native workflows. Implement best practices for ML/AI Ops, distributed computing, and scalable service orchestration.Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Partner with Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDEs), AI Researchers, and business SMEs to translate real-world operational needs into platform capabilities. Advocate for strong software engineering and DevOps practices, driving high coding standards and scalable architectures.Who We’re Looking ForWe are hiring multiple roles across different levels of seniority (3-10+ years of software engineering experience).Proficiency in Backend & Systems Engineering. Expertise in Python, Java, Golang, or C++ for building scalable, high-performance systems.Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and infrastructure as code.Strong interest in AI-native development, leveraging tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Cursor in engineering workflows.Experience with security, distributed systems, storage, ML/AI Ops, and large-scale observability is a plus.What We OfferThe opportunity to build enterprise-scale AI infrastructure used by Fortune 500 companies.Work alongside top engineers, AI researchers, and enterprise experts in an AI-native company.Competitive salary, benefits, and equity in a fast-growing startup.Hybrid work environment – 3 days a week in our NYC office.If you’re a strong software engineer with a passion for building AI infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and help shape the future of AI-powered enterprise systems!

Location: New York

Salary range: None - None

2025-10-11 Distyl

Strategy and Growth Operator

<h2>About Distyl</h2>Distyl partners with the Global Fortune 1000 to lead $100M+ transformations through AI-native automation of core operations. Backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, and Coatue, we operate like a special ops team: fast, outcome-driven, and focused on solving high-stakes enterprise challenges. Our team blends elite talent from tech, strategy, and government to build the future of AI-powered enterprise operations. <h2>About the Role</h2>As a Growth Operator, you’ll report directly to senior leadership and play a pivotal role in both closing new business and ensuring customer outcomes. You’ll work cross-functionally to turn opportunities into long-term wins, helping Fortune 500 clients realize the value of AI in their most critical workflows.This role requires intellectual agility, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to operate in uncharted territory. You’ll need to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, adapt quickly, and maintain clarity under pressure. The right candidate thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution, bringing a mix of consulting discipline, product intuition, and entrepreneurial drive. <h2>What You’ll Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Partner with Strategic Advisors, shaping proposals, guiding contracting processes, and supporting deal closure.</li><li>Work closely with delivery teams to scope opportunities, align on success metrics, and ensure projects deliver measurable impact.</li><li>Serve as a connective tissue across Distyl teams, ensuring smooth handoffs and coordinated execution.</li><li>Manage complex workstreams with enterprise clients, balancing multiple initiatives without losing focus on outcomes.</li><li>Represent Distyl with executive stakeholders, building trusted relationships that last.</li><li>Bring curiosity and insight to AI and LLM applications, helping translate technology into business value.</li><li>Be a force multiplier for the company’s growth. Wherever the bottleneck is, you lean in.</li></ul><h2>Who You Are</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of professional experience (consulting, product management, strategy, or similar fields).</li><li>Strong understanding of enterprise contracting and sales processes, with the ability to navigate them without being a “traditional salesperson.”</li><li>Track record of operating in high-stakes, fast-paced environments where precision and adaptability matter.</li><li>Excellent interpersonal skills. You can quickly earn trust, communicate with clarity, and effectively manage relationships at all levels. </li><li>Demonstrated ability to juggle multiple complex priorities and execute with rigor.</li><li>Passion for technology, with exposure to AI/LLMs preferred.</li><li>Open to travel as needed.</li></ul><h2>Why Join Us?</h2>We’re less concerned with the perfect résumé and more with how you think and how you show up. Distyl seeks individuals who combine sharp intellect with emotional intelligence, thrive in ambiguity, and have a history of undertaking challenging or unusual tasks that have shaped their approach to operating under pressure.Note: Distyl is a hybrid working environment and requires in-office collaboration 3 days a week. We have offices in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY, and this role is available in San Francisco office.

Location: San Francisco

Salary range: None - None

2025-10-11 Distyl

Technical Recruiter

<h2>About Distyl AI:</h2>Distyl AI develops AI-native technologies for humans & AI to collaborate to power the operations of the Global Fortune 500.In just over 24 months, we’ve rapidly grown to partner with some of the world’s largest enterprises—including F100 telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and retail companies—delivering multiple AI deployments with $100M+ impact. Our platform, Distillery, along with our team of AI Engineers, Researchers, and Strategists, is pioneering AI-native systems of work, solving the most complex, high-stakes challenges at scale.Distyl is founded and led by proven leaders from companies like Palantir, Apple, and top national laboratories. We work in deep partnership with OpenAI, jointly going-to-market at the largest enterprises and collaborating, evaluating, and testing the latest models. Backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, Coatue, industry leaders like Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO), and board members of over 20+ F500s, Distyl is building the future of AI-powered enterprise operations.<h2>What We Are Looking For:</h2>Distyl is looking for a versatile, hands-on technical recruiter with a track record of building incredible teams in high growth mode. In this role, you will handle recruiting for key roles from end-to-end across engineering, strategy, research, and other functions. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, excels at managing multiple priorities, and has a strong passion for building incredible teams. You’ll bring creativity, versatility, and excellent communication skills, ensuring that Distyl continues to attract top talent and operate efficiently.<h2>Key Responsibilities:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead full-cycle recruiting for key technical roles (AI Engineers, AI Researchers, AI Strategists, and more).</li><li>Source top talent through targeted outreach, networking, referrals, and creative campaigns and AI-driven strategies using tools like ChatGPT or LinkedIn AI extensions.</li><li>Use AI tools to streamline recruiting workflows, write high-conversion outreach, screen candidates efficiently, and analyze recruiting data to improve performance.</li><li>Build strong partnerships with hiring managers, calibrating on role requirements, interview structure, and ideal profiles.</li><li>Deliver outstanding candidate experiences, ensuring timely communication, clarity in process, and a high-touch approach from start to finish.</li><li>Develop and maintain robust talent pipelines to meet current and future hiring needs, with a focus on quality and long-term fit.</li><li>Champion our brand in the AI and tech talent space, attending relevant events, conferences, and meetups to represent our team and values.</li></ul><h2>What We're Looking For</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of experience in technical recruiting, with a proven track record hiring technical roles in a high-growth or startup environment.</li><li>Comfort using or experimenting with AI tools to enhance sourcing, outreach, screening, or interview coordination.</li><li>Ability to move fast, operate autonomously, and navigate ambiguity with urgency.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when engaging technical talent.</li><li>Highly organized, data-aware, and committed to continuously improving the recruiting process.</li><li>A collaborative spirit with strong judgment, discretion, and an eye for long-term team building.</li><li>Exposure to tools like Ashby, ChatGPT, Juicebox, or other AI-native recruiting tools</li><li>Technical acumen or bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field is a plus</li></ul><h2>What We Offer:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Competitive salary and benefits package, including equity options and healthcare.</li><li>The opportunity to work at a mission-driven AI startup that is transforming how Fortune 500 companies operate.</li><li>A fast-paced, dynamic work environment where your contributions will directly impact the company’s success.</li><li>A collaborative culture that values professional growth and encourages taking on new responsibilities.</li><li>Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and the opportunity to build a world-class team.</li></ul>If you are a proactive, detail-oriented professional who excels in supporting high-powered teams, we encourage you to apply and join our mission of enabling the future of AI-powered enterprises.Note: Distyl is a hybrid working environment and requires in-office collaboration 3 days per week in one of our offices. We have offices in New York City and San Francisco.

Location: San Francisco

Salary range: None - None

2025-10-11 Distyl

Software Engineer - Front End

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://distyl.ai/">Distyl AI</a> develops AI native technologies for humans & AI to collaborate to power the operations of the Global Fortune 1000.In just 24 months, we’ve rapidly grown to partner with some of the world’s largest enterprises—including F100 telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and retail companies—delivering multiple AI deployments with $100M+ impact. Our platform, Distillery, along with our team of AI Engineers, Researchers, and Strategists, is pioneering AI-native systems of work, solving the most complex, high-stakes challenges at scale.Distyl is founded and led by proven leaders from companies like Palantir, Apple, and top national laboratories. We work in deep partnership with OpenAI, jointly going-to-market at the largest enterprises and collaborating evaluating and testing the latest models. Backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, Coatue, industry leaders like Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO), as well as board members of over 20+ F500s, Distyl is building the future of AI-powered enterprise operations.What We Are Looking For: At Distyl we’re bringing AI to the F500 and deliver novel and delightful user experiences. We’re looking for experienced Front End Engineers who are excited to define the future of work with a focus on human value. You will build the UI/UX patterns in which AI is deployed and used by the world’s most important institutions.Success at Distyl requires an obsessiveness about the user’s experience with our product and a drive to deliver great software. As an early member of our FE engineering team, your day to day will vary from writing code, collaborating with product and design on defining our products, and building core engineering infrastructure.Key Responsibilities:<ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Building Enterprise Grade Frontend Applications: You will collaborate closely with the rest of our team to deliver high quality frontend applications.</li><li>Solution Design: Collaborate closely Distyl AI Strategists to deeply understand customer’s workflows and design tailored AI solutions.</li><li>End-to-End Software Ownership: Take charge of the entire software lifecycle, from service development to deploying them in customer cloud environments.</li></ol>Qualifications:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Strong Coding Skills: Strong command of frontend development using React/TypeScript is essential. Backend experience in Python is beneficial and experience with AI/ML is helpful.</li><li>User Empathy and Customer Focus: A deep sense of user empathy and a customer-obsessed approach, ensuring that solutions are not only technically sound but also closely aligned with customer needs and experiences.</li><li>An Eye for Design: We often build before pixel perfect mocks are built, being able to make a reasonable design choice within the design system is key.</li><li>Software Architecture: Demonstrated ability in architecting front end applications for change is critical.</li></ul>What We Offer:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Competitive salary and benefits package, including equity options and healthcare.</li><li>Be part of a mission-oriented company to create practical adoption during the biggest revolution in human productivity.</li><li>Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technologies and make a real impact on the adoption of LLMs in the enterprise space.</li><li>Collaborative and supportive work environment, with a strong focus on personal and professional growth.</li><li>Exposure to a diverse range of real-world industries and projects, providing unique challenges and learning opportunities.</li><li>Chance to be part of a growing team that is passionate about AI and its potential to revolutionize human productivity.</li></ul>Note: Distyl is a hybrid working environment and requires in office collaboration 3 days a week. We have offices in SF and NYC

Location: New York

Salary range: None - None

2025-10-11 Distyl

AI Engineer (All Levels)

Distyl AI develops AI-native technologies that enable humans and AI to collaboratively power operations across the Global Fortune 1000. In just 24 months, we’ve partnered with some of the world’s most iconic enterprises including F100 telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and retail companies delivering AI deployments with $100M+ in impact.Our platform, Distillery, combined with our cross-functional teams of AI Engineers, Researchers, and Strategists, is pioneering AI-native systems of work that solve high-stakes challenges at scale. Distyl is founded and led by proven leaders from companies like Palantir, Apple, and national research labs. We maintain a deep partnership with OpenAI and are backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, Coatue, Nat Friedman, and board members from over 20 Fortune 500 companies.<h2>What We’re Looking For</h2>We’re hiring AI Engineers at all levels of experience, from early-career builders to senior engineers who can lead large-scale deployments and shape our customers' technical roadmap. Regardless of seniority, every AI Engineer at Distyl is a hands-on contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and deploying production-grade AI systems using Large Language Models (LLMs).At the most senior levels, our engineers operate as the technical owners of F500 engagements, defining architecture, engaging with enterprise leaders, and leading technical teams to transform mission-critical workflows.<h2>Responsibilities</h2>All AI Engineers at Distyl are expected to:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design and Deploy LLM-Powered Systems: Build and deploy robust GenAI systems that deliver measurable business value. Includes model evaluation, prompt design, agent/agentic logic, and full-stack application development.</li><li>Engage Deeply with Customers: Work directly with customer stakeholders to understand their most pressing business and technical needs, and turn those into tailored, high-impact AI solutions.</li><li>Build and Improve Our Platform: Contribute to the development of Distillery, our internal LLM application platform, by developing reusable tools, infrastructure, and workflows that scale across customers.</li><li>Deliver Production Quality: Ensure systems are observable, maintainable, and meet rigorous reliability, performance, and security standards.</li><li>Evaluate AI Systems Scientifically: Lead evaluation efforts balancing accuracy, latency, explainability, cost, and robustness.</li><li>Continuously Improve: Refine development workflows, platform architecture, and deployment practices to raise the engineering bar.</li></ul>At higher levels of experience, you will also:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Set technical direction and architecture for multi-million-dollar customer engagements.</li><li>Earn executive trust and guide enterprise engineers through rollout and long-term operations.</li><li>Mentor and up-level Distyl engineers via design reviews, architectural design reviews, leading by doing, and targeted coaching.</li></ul><h2>Qualifications</h2>We believe great AI Engineers come from diverse backgrounds and are unified by deep curiosity, pragmatism, and engineering excellence. We’re excited to meet candidates with:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proficiency in Python or Typescript (experience with a diverse set of languages is a plus), with hands-on experience using LLM tooling such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Guardrails, MCP and Agents SDK.</li><li>Experience building and deploying LLM-powered AI agents in production, including tool use, prompt orchestration, RAG, and long-horizon task execution.</li><li>Deep understanding of agent design patterns, with practical experience in observability, debugging, and human-in-the-loop feedback systems.</li><li>Skilled at solving complex, ambiguous problems using cutting-edge AI techniques to deliver meaningful business outcomes.</li><li>Familiar with responsible AI practices (e.g., auditability, interpretability), and experienced in aligning AI systems with enterprise-grade requirements.</li><li>Comfortable working across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) with modern DevOps tools (Docker, CI/CD), and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.</li><li>For senior roles: strong architectural and systems design, experience leading projects, navigating and deploying into enterprise hybrid cloud environments and mentor others</li></ul><h2>What We Offer</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Competitive salary and meaningful equity.</li><li>100% covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents.</li><li>401(k) with additional perks (commuter benefits, in-office lunch).</li><li>Access to state-of-the-art models, generous usage of modern AI tools, and real-world business problems.</li><li>Ownership of high-impact projects across top enterprises.</li><li>A mission-driven, fast-moving culture that prizes curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence. </li></ul>Offices in San Francisco and New York with hybrid collaboration (3+ days/week in-office).

Location: San Francisco

Salary range: None - None

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