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Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering with the world’s most ambitious institutions to rearchitect critical operations for the frontier of AI. Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations. We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations — both for our partners and for Distyl itself. Our work spans research into self-constructing systems, the development of the most reliable execution of AI systems, and products that transform mission-critical workflows. As a result, Distyl's technologies affect some of the world's largest operations — from hundreds of millions of consumer interactions to tens of millions of supply chain transactions and millions of patient journeys. Distyl is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, DST Global, and the board-members of 20+ F500s. The results reflect this approach: a 100% production deployment success rate for our customers and one of the few enterprise AI companies to run a profitable business.
Job Responsibility
Own the technical shape of AI systems deployed in customer environments
Define how models, agents, data pipelines, APIs, and orchestration layers fit together, how those systems integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure, and how they are operated safely and reliably at scale. Their focus is on cross-cutting architectural patterns that span multiple customer systems, ensuring consistency, safety, and long-term evolvability across deployments
Hands-on throughout the lifecycle—building reference implementations, reviewing and evolving production systems, and stepping in directly on high-risk or high-impact technical problems
Accountable for architectural coherence across teams and over time, ensuring that systems remain composable, secure, observable, and adaptable as requirements evolve
Investigate how AI systems, legacy systems, and human operators interact in practice
Identify failure modes, risk surfaces, and integration bottlenecks, and establish guardrails and patterns that allow teams to move quickly without sacrificing safety, auditability, or correctness
Act as peers to senior technical leaders in customer engagements—whiteboarding architectures, pressure-testing assumptions, and translating business objectives into concrete, executable system designs. They influence direction through clarity of reasoning and demonstrated delivery, not escalation
Requirements
5+ years of software engineering experience
Proven Ownership of Complex System Architecture: You have designed, built, and operated complex distributed systems in production, and have taken responsibility for how those systems evolve over time. You are comfortable making irreversible or high-impact architectural decisions and owning their consequences
Depth in AI Systems and Integration: You can reason fluently about how AI components—models, agents, retrieval, evaluation, orchestration—interact with data platforms, APIs, and existing services. You understand how design choices affect reliability, latency, security, and debuggability in real deployments
Strong Security and Risk Intuition: You bring a security-first mindset to system design, with practical experience around data access, identity, auditability, and compliance. You can articulate tradeoffs clearly and design systems that satisfy enterprise risk requirements without crippling velocity
Hands-On Execution: You write and review production code, build critical integration paths, and stay close to the system. You are comfortable dropping into ambiguous, high-stakes technical situations and unblocking progress through direct execution
Customer-Facing Technical Credibility: You can engage confidently with senior customer engineers and operators, ask sharp questions, and earn trust through technical depth and follow-through. You are able to represent Distyl as a long-term technical partner in complex enterprise environments
Travel: Ability to travel 25-50%
What we offer
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
A mission‑driven, fast‑moving culture that prizes curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence