Distyl · 18 hours ago
AI Engineer (New Graduate)
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
New Grad, Entry Level
$150K/yr - $170K/yrDistyl 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.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIInformation TechnologySoftware
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Distyl
Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future.
Founded in 2022
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$202MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners
2025-09-22Series B· $175M
2024-09-24Series A· $20M
2023-04-13Seed· $7M
Leadership Team
Arjun Prakash
Co-Founder, CEO
Derek Ho
Co-Founder, COO
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