Research Engineers, Agents

The role

Research Engineers build the bridge between frontier AI research and production systems. They design and implement compound AI systems, run experiments, and build evaluation frameworks to turn concepts into reliable systems for customer environments.

What you will do

• Design, prototype, and implement agentic AI systems
• Build compound AI architectures combining planning, tool use, retrieval, memory, evaluation, orchestration, and execution
• Investigate how agents reason, coordinate, recover from errors, and interact with external systems
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure agent behavior and reliability
• Create tools and abstractions to observe, debug, test, and improve agent behavior
• Partner with AI Researchers and AI Engineers
• Integrate agents into customer APIs, applications, data platforms, and operational workflows
• Communicate agent capabilities, limitations, tradeoffs, and risks to internal teams and customer stakeholders

Required qualifications

• Experience building AI systems that use models, tools, retrieval, planning, memory, or multi-step execution
• Write clean, maintainable Python
• Comfortable debugging complex, stateful systems
• Systems-level reasoning regarding prompts, tools, context, evaluators, state, orchestration, and external APIs
• Ability to design experiments to test different architectures and behaviors
• Use AI tools daily to write code, debug systems, explore designs, analyze traces, and accelerate experimentation
• Ability to translate ambiguous business workflows into concrete agent designs
• Ability to explain system behavior clearly to stakeholders
• Ownership mentality regarding agentic system performance

Benefits

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible time off
• Retirement and financial planning benefits
• Access to pre-tax HSA, FSA, and commuter accounts
• 401(k)
• Financial coaching resources
• Physical fitness, mental well-being, and fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot
• Complimentary in-office lunches and snacks
• Access to state-of-the-art AI models
• Generous usage of modern AI tools
• Ownership of high-impact projects

About the company

Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering with large institutions to rearchitect critical operations. They research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations for partners and themselves.