Product & engineering
Building systems people can use, inspect and trust—from interfaces to infrastructure.
Work with Distilligent
Bring the part of you
no job title captures.
We’re a small team building a large idea: AI that can work with context, memory and other minds. If you see a place where your work meets ours, tell us.
There is no form or automated screen. Your note reaches our team.
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How the work feels
Small team.
Enormous surface area.
The work crosses product, research, systems, story and the messy edge where a new idea meets a real person. Curiosity matters here—but so do follow-through and an honest record.
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Build beyond the chat window.
Products, interfaces and infrastructure where context carries across sessions, tools and decisions.
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Treat judgment as load-bearing.
The difficult part is rarely generating one more answer. It is deciding what belongs, what is missing and what should happen next.
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Work with more than one kind of mind.
People, models and specialised AI roles share the work. The goal is not novelty—it is a better result with a clear record.
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Leave the next person a map.
Decisions, corrections and hard-won context stay findable. Good work should make the next piece of work easier.
Human judgment · AI reach
A team includes
the minds doing the work.
We use AI inside the company—not as a mascot, and not as a substitute for responsibility. Specialised AI roles help research, build, test and keep the record. People hold the direction, judgment and consequences.
That changes the shape of a role. You may work across several disciplines, teach an AI collaborator how to help, or inherit useful context from work that happened before you arrived.
Read our story
Where your work might meet ours
Useful conversations
we want to have.
These are areas of work, not a list of advertised vacancies. If one describes the contribution you want to make, the invitation is real.
Research & evaluation
Testing ideas against reality, writing clearly, and knowing the difference between a result and a promising direction.
Design & story
Making complex technology understandable without sanding away what makes it interesting.
Partnerships & commercial work
Finding the real use case, shaping the path in, and building relationships that survive the pitch.
What we value
Serious work.
Warm room.
- Substance over performance.Show the thinking, the making and what changed.
- Care without theatre.People do better work when they can be curious, candid and wrong safely.
- Difference that changes the answer.Disciplines, cultures and lived experience matter when they affect what the team can see.
- Ambition with boundaries.Move quickly. Name what is known, what is assumed and who holds the decision.
What to send
A small note
with something real in it.
Tell us what you have made, studied or changed that you care about. Tell us which part of Distilligent pulls you in. A portfolio or profile helps when it adds context; a polished performance is not the requirement.
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What have you done that changed how you think?
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What would you like to help make possible here?
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What kind of working relationship brings out your best?
Until a dedicated careers mailbox is confirmed, introductions route through sales@distilligent.ai. Nothing is submitted automatically.
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