AI Engineer (New Graduate)

Distyl is a company that develops AI-native technologies to enhance operations for major enterprises. They are seeking early-career AI Engineers to design, implement, and deploy AI systems while gaining exposure to customer-focused work and improving their technical skills in a collaborative environment. Responsibilities • Design, implement, and deploy GenAI applications under the guidance of senior engineers • Contribute to prompt design, agent logic, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and model evaluation. Help build full-stack AI applications that deliver measurable business value • Gain exposure to customer-facing work by initially shadowing technical conversations and learning how business needs are translated into system design, with opportunities over time to take on more responsibility in technical decision-making and implementation • Partner with senior engineers to understand customer problems and translate requirements into technical solutions • Participate in customer discussions, solution design sessions, and iterative delivery • Help improve Distillery, Distyl’s internal LLM application platform, by building reusable components, tools, and workflows • Learn best practices for scalable, maintainable AI infrastructure • Write clean, well-tested, and observable code that meets reliability, performance, and security standards • Learn how production AI systems are monitored, debugged, and improved over time • Assist with evaluating AI systems across accuracy, latency, cost, and robustness • Apply feedback from users and metrics to improve system performance • Continuously develop your skills in LLMs, software engineering, and AI through mentorship, code reviews, and hands-on project work • Learn modern development workflows and deployment practices used in enterprise AI Skills • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field • Proficiency in Python or TypeScript, with strong software engineering fundamentals • Academic, internship, or project experience with LLMs or GenAI systems, such as: Prompting and prompt experimentation, RAG pipelines, Simple AI agents or tool-using systems • Familiarity with LLM tooling or frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Agents SDK, or similar), or strong interest in learning them • Experience building projects end-to-end (school projects, internships, hackathons, or open-source) • Comfort working in collaborative environments and learning from feedback • Basic familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Docker, or CI/CD is a plus, but not required Benefits • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents. • 401(k) with additional perks (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. Company Overview • Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://distyl.ai. Company H1B Sponsorship • Distyl has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply To This Job