Distyl

Research Engineers, Data

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: New York.
Location as listed by the employer: “San Francisco; New York”
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About this role

Distyl is hiring for a Research Engineers, Data role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • Experience Building Data Systems for AI: You have built data pipelines, evaluation datasets, labeling workflows, retrieval corpora, or similar systems that improve model or agent behavior
  • Strong Data Engineering Fundamentals: You write clean Python and SQL, understand data modeling and pipeline reliability, and can build systems that are maintainable under production constraints
  • Research-Oriented Builder: You are comfortable investigating how data quality, structure, and representation affect AI system performance
  • AI-Native Working Style: You use AI tools daily to accelerate coding, analysis, debugging, exploration, and workflow automation
  • Comfort with Ambiguous Data: You can reason through messy enterprise datasets, incomplete documentation, conflicting business definitions, and changing requirements
  • Bias Towards Measurement: You prefer to make data quality and system behavior observable through concrete metrics, evaluations, and experiments
  • Customer Environment Readiness: You can work directly with customer teams to understand their data, ask precise questions, and explain tradeoffs clearly
  • Ownership Mentality: You take responsibility for whether the data layer enables the AI system to deliver reliable value in production

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