AI engineer, UK
You’d build production language-model systems for Distyl’s customers. You’d also add shared tools to the platform those systems use.
- London, hybrid
- Full time
- 8 or more years
- Pay not listed
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“Distyl is opening a London office. You’d need 8 or more years, and a language-model system you’ve already shipped.”
Who it suits
A good fit
- Have 8 or more years of professional software engineering and have shipped a language-model application or an agent
- Like working with an enterprise customer on the problem, then building the system
- Want the systems you ship to stay measurable, on accuracy, latency, cost, and safety
Think twice
- Haven’t shipped a language-model application or an agent
- Don’t want customer work in the job
- Want a research job with no production system to own
What you’d do
- Design and ship applications on large language models, including agents, tool use, and prompt design.
- Work with enterprise customers and turn their problems into a system.
- Build shared tools on Distillery, Distyl’s platform, so every customer project can use them.
- Write evaluations for accuracy, latency, cost, reliability, and safety.
What they ask for
- You have 8 or more years of professional software engineering.
- You are strong in Python or TypeScript.
- You have built and deployed a language-model application or an agent in production.
How it works
- The job is hybrid in London. The posting does not list pay.
What to know about this job
Open 1 week
- Week 1This job has been open this long
- Week 9Half of London AI engineer jobs have closed
In November 2026, Distyl has 1 AI engineer job open in London.
The product builder, 46% of London AI engineer jobs
- 46%The product builder (this job). You build production systems on large language models for Distyl’s customers, and shared tools on Distillery.
- 25%The platform builder. Builds the systems that train, serve and monitor models so they run fast and reliably at scale.
- 23%The model builder. Trains and fine-tunes their own models, such as recommendations, vision or fraud, and ships them into the product.
Shares of open AI engineer jobs in London.
Most new London AI engineers weren’t AI engineers before
- 71% of people who became AI engineers in London weren’t AI engineers in their last job.
- 47% of them came from a startup or scale-up.
Distyl doesn’t list pay for this job
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What London AI engineers earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “How many days a week is the London office?”
- “How is the week split between a customer and Distillery?”
Jack’s take on Distyl
- Revenue grew 5x in 2024
- Valuation rose 9x to $1.8B in 10 months
- The team more than tripled to about 180 people since the end of 2024
- Two Palantir alumni founded and run it, with new heads of engineering and people since July 2026
- Three office days a week, travel to customers and AI encouraged in most engineering interview stages
- Headquarters in San Francisco and New York
- Founded 2022
- 25 open jobs
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Jack & Jill isn’t Distyl’s recruiter. We summarized this job from Distyl’s public careers page, where you can apply. We check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our London AI engineer guide and the company facts from Distyl’s page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.