Frontend Platform Architect
$180k - $250k USD
About Distyl AI
Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering with the world’s most ambitious institutions to rearchitect critical operations for the frontier of AI. Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations.
We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations — both for our partners and for Distyl itself. Our work spans research into self-constructing systems, the development of the most reliable execution of AI systems, and products that transform mission-critical workflows. As a result, Distyl's technologies affect some of the world's largest operations — from hundreds of millions of consumer interactions to tens of millions of supply chain transactions and millions of patient journeys.
Distyl is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, DST Global, and the board-members of 20+ F500s. The results reflect this approach: a 100% production deployment success rate for our customers and one of the few enterprise AI companies to run a profitable business.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for a Frontend Platform Architect to design and build the frontend platform that enables these applications. This role defines the architecture, primitives, and guardrails that allow engineers—and eventually AI agents themselves—to safely create and evolve interfaces. The eventual goal is for applications to autonomously evolve just as our AI systems do.
Key Responsibilities
Build the frontend platform that enables humans and AI agents to create and evolve applications
Design the frontend architecture that makes this possible—ensuring applications can be built and deployed rapidly while maintaining enterprise-grade control, consistency, and governance
Enable forward deployed and research teams to push the limits
Work closely with research engineers developing new AI capabilities and forward-deployed teams deploying these systems into real-world environments
Design frontend primitives and platform infrastructure that allow teams to rapidly experiment with new workflows, interfaces, and AI capabilities—while ensuring the broader platform remains stable and coherent
Develop and maintain frontend platform guardrails and standards
Define the architectural patterns, shared primitives, and platform conventions used to build applications across Distyl
Design and own component systems and UI primitives, application architecture and integration patterns, frontend infrastructure and build systems, developer tooling and testing frameworks
Who You Are
Strong experience building and operating modern frontend platforms, including large-scale TypeScript and React applications, component systems and design infrastructure, application architecture and integration patterns, frontend infrastructure, build systems, and tooling, and state management and data synchronization
Understand how frontend systems interact with APIs, distributed systems, and real-time data sources
Designed and evolved frontend systems used by many engineers or applications. You understand how architectural decisions affect maintainability, developer productivity, and long-term system evolution
Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions and owning their consequences
Helped establish frontend standards, shared infrastructure, or architectural patterns used by multiple engineers or teams
Write production code, review critical changes, and contribute directly to platform infrastructure
Comfortable stepping into complex systems, diagnosing architectural problems, and improving them through pragmatic solutions
Actively use modern AI tools in your workflow and think about how systems can be designed so that AI agents can safely generate, modify, and evolve application interfaces over time
Experience designing shared systems—component libraries, design systems, developer tooling, or internal frameworks—that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining consistency across applications
Comfortable working across research, infrastructure engineering, and forward deployed teams to design systems that integrate cleanly with broader infrastructure and evolving AI capabilities
What We Offer
The base salary range for this role is $180K – $250K, depending on experience, location, and level. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for meaningful equity, along with a comprehensive benefits package
100% covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
401(k) with additional perks (e.g., 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
Distyl has offices in San Francisco and New York. This role follows a hybrid collaboration model with 3+ days per week (Tuesday–Thursday) in‑office.