Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the behavior and performance of AI systems deployed for customers
• Design and implement compound AI workflows that combine models, agents, retrieval, evaluation, and execution into coherent, production-ready systems aligned with real SME needs
• Integrate AI systems into customer data platforms, APIs, and existing applications. You'll make pragmatic system design decisions that balance speed, robustness, and maintainability, and ensure systems remain understandable and operable over time
• Work directly with customer stakeholders-often in high-visibility settings-and are expected to reason clearly about system behavior, tradeoffs, and limitations.
• Take accountability for outcomes in production and adapt systems as requirements evolve
• What We Require
• 2+ years of software engineering experience
• Ownership Mentality for AI Systems: You take responsibility for whether an AI system actually delivers its intended value in production. You are comfortable making independent technical decisions across system design, evaluation, and integration, and owning the results of those decisions
• Strong Engineering Fundamentals: Write clean, maintainable Python and are comfortable building and operating real systems. You understand core engineering concepts like versioning, debugging, testing, and performance, and can build systems that hold up under real usage and scrutiny
• AI-Native Working Style: Use AI tools daily to write and debug code, explore designs, analyze data, and automate repetitive work. You are curious about new model capabilities and techniques, and actively incorporate them into how you build and iterate on systems
• Comfort in Customer Environments: Able to work directly with customer teams, ask good questions, and adapt quickly to new domains. You communicate clearly about system behavior and limitations, and can operate effectively in high-trust, high-visibility situations
• Travel: Ability to travel 25-50%

Benefits

Additional Information

About Distyl AI 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.

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