💼 About This Role

You'll join the System Self-Construction team at Distyl, an applied AI company partnering with top enterprises to rearchitect critical operations. Your research will design architectures capable of autonomously generating and refining sub-systems, pushing the frontier of self-referential generative systems. You'll work on meta-learning loops and self-architecting frameworks that reduce the human bottleneck in complex system creation.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design architectures for autonomous system generation and assembly
• Develop meta-learning loops and automated pipeline generation
• Research recursive design principles for system self-improvement
• Build and experiment with self-architecting frameworks

📋 Requirements

• Proven track record of research results (publications, projects, or social media)
• Experience building modular and composable systems with dynamic components
• Strong programming and data analysis skills for prototyping and experimentation
• Uses AI tools daily like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Perplexity

✨ Nice to Have

• Expertise in compound AI systems and agentic collaboration
• Background in meta-learning, program synthesis, or evolutionary computation

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive base salary $150K–$250K plus meaningful equity
• 🏥 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
• 🏦 401(k) with additional perks like commuter benefits and in-office lunch
• 🤖 Access to state-of-the-art models and AI tools
• 🚀 Ownership of high-impact projects across top enterprises