compound AI systems Jobs

4 open roles mentioning compound AI systems

Applied AI Researcher, System Discovery

1y ago
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Distyl AI

Distyl AI is seeking creative researchers to push the envelope of AI utilization in enterprise. This role focuses on identifying entirely new classes of AI systems by exploring a wide range of architectures, modalities, and compositions to uncover how AI can most effectively reshape work. The ideal candidate will have a strong research track record, operate in an AI-native way, and be driven to redefine how software is used, rather than just optimize existing processes. You will draw connections across disparate domains, experiment with unconventional problem definitions, and develop prototypes that reveal new categories of human-AI collaboration.

$150k - $250k

San Francisco hybrid FullTime
Fine-TuningAIReact +8 more

Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction

1y ago
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Distyl AI

Distyl AI is seeking creative researchers to redefine how software is used by pushing the envelope of AI utilization in enterprise. This role focuses on building systems that can construct other systems, involving the design of architectures capable of autonomously generating, assembling, and refining sub-systems. Researchers will explore recursive design principles, drawing from meta-learning, program synthesis, and evolutionary computation to understand and redesign systems. The work defines the frontier of self-referential, generative system architectures, impacting large-scale operations across various industries.

$150k - $250k

San Francisco hybrid FullTime
Fine-TuningAIReact +8 more

Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Improvement

1y ago
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Distyl AI

Distyl AI is seeking creative researchers to push the envelope of AI utilization in enterprise. This role focuses on building architectures that continuously evaluate and enhance their own performance, aiming to create AI systems that compound in capability through use. Researchers will design feedback-driven systems capable of detecting weaknesses, generating corrective hypotheses, and implementing improvements through reflection, retraining, or workflow adaptation. The work involves studying how systems can form self-models, exploring reflective reasoning, reward modeling, and self-evaluation techniques to enable autonomous evolution, bridging reinforcement learning, interpretability, and meta-optimization.

$150k - $250k

San Francisco hybrid FullTime
PythonFine-TuningReinforcement Learning +8 more

Applied AI Researcher, Benchmarking

1y ago
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Distyl AI

Distyl AI is seeking creative researchers to push the boundaries of AI utilization in enterprise. This role focuses on defining and measuring progress in AI systems, designing evaluation frameworks that capture reasoning depth, interaction quality, reliability, and operational impact. Researchers will construct benchmarks reflecting real-world complexity and explore new paradigms for evaluating intelligent systems, such as adversarial robustness testing and human-in-the-loop assessment. The goal is to establish rigorous methodologies for quantifying emergent capabilities and drive both internal research priorities and industry-wide standards.

$150k - $250k

San Francisco hybrid FullTime
Fine-TuningAIdata analysis +8 more

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