About Distyl AI

Distyl AI develops production-grade AI systems to power core operational workflows for Fortune 500 companies. Powered by a strategic partnership with OpenAI, software accelerators developed in-house, and deep enterprise AI expertise, we give our customers working AI systems with rapid time to value - within a quarter.

Our products have helped Fortune 500 customers across diverse industries, from insurance and CPG to non-profits. As part of our team, you will help companies identify, build, and realize value from their GenAI investments, often for the first time. We are customer-centric, working backwards from the customer’s problem and holding ourselves accountable for creating both financial impact and improving the lives of our end-users. We are not just pushing the frontier of AI forward - we are creating the future of AI-powered enterprises.

Distyl is led by proven leaders from top companies like Palantir and Apple. We are VC backed by Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, leaders like Nat Friedman (Former CEO of Github) and Brad Gerstner (Founder and CEO of Altimeter), and board members of over a dozen F500s.

What We Are Looking For

AI Platform Engineers design and build Distillery — our platform to build, evolve, and operate AI Systems for diverse F500 workflows. You will be responsible for developing scalable services, improving system reliability, and ensuring our AI infrastructure meets the needs of our customer workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Design an AI Native Platform – Our AI solutions are built, refined, and operated by AI. Thus the platform deeply integrates AI into it’s core principles. You’ll define this by translating traditional requirements into the world of AI.

• Write Cloud Native Services Using a Modern Python Stack — Our systems are deployed to our customer cloud/on prem environments on Kubernetes. We use FastAPI, SQL Alchemy, and Alembic to write performant services in python.

• Advocate for Strong Software Engineering Practice – Engineers on our platform team come from the strongest engineering companies in the world. They know what good looks like and radiate it across the company.

• Collaborate with Customer-Facing Teams – Partner with forward-deployed engineers and business SMEs to translate real-world operational needs into platform features.

Qualifications

• 3-10 years of professional experience in software engineering on a product or platform team.

• Expertise in Python, Java, Golang, C++ or other similar systems programming langauges.

• Strong experience with modern Dev Ops and continuous delivery practices. Able to ship fast and safe.

• Demonstrated excitement to incorporate AI into your life, use of Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc in development workflows.

• Specialized knowledge in core platform requirements such as security, storage, compute orchestration, ML/AI Ops, and observability.

What We Offer

• The 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 SF or NYC offices.

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!