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AI Engineer

£150k - £200k per year
Full-time

Distyl

Distyl partners with the world's most ambitious enterprises to design and run their AI transformations, backed by Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures and Coatue. As an AI Engineer in the new London office you'll work directly with Fortune 500 customers to build and ship real-world AI applications, from intelligent agents to full-stack AI products.

What you'll do

  • Build production AI systems with LLMs: prompt engineering, agent workflows, tool use and full-stack products.
  • Work directly with enterprise stakeholders to translate complex problems into AI solutions.
  • Design scalable architectures balancing performance, reliability, cost and maintainability.
  • Contribute to Distillery, Distyl's internal LLM application platform.
  • Build rigorous evaluation frameworks for accuracy, latency, cost, reliability and safety.

Requirements

  • 5–15 years in software engineering, building production AI/LLM systems in Python.
  • Experience with LLMs, agents, RAG, prompt engineering, APIs and evaluation frameworks.
  • Able to work hybrid in London (visa transfers only).

Compensation: £150K – £200K base + meaningful equity + relocation up to $5K + comprehensive benefits. Hybrid, 3 days a week (Tue–Thu) in London.

Vacancy posted 4 hours ago
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