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Taste LabsTaste LabsSan Francisco, CA

AI Engineer

Build AI systems, agent harnesses, evaluation pipelines, retrieval infrastructure, crawling systems, and inference APIs that make subjective design quality measurable. The role requires experience building AI-forward products or systems, strong technical judgment, and comfort solving ambiguous startup problems.

175k – 275k/yr
On-siteAI Research

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build AI systems powering taste agent harnesses, memory, evaluations, and tooling.
  • Design evaluation pipelines and synthetic data generation systems.
  • Create embedding and retrieval infrastructure that scales to millions of requests.
  • Build crawling and scraping systems for visual data across the web.
  • Set up inference serving and APIs for client-facing products.
  • Manage security sweeps and vulnerability mapping.
  • Develop reliable, fast tooling and infrastructure for AI-forward products.
  • Build post-training data and reinforcement-learning environments for frontier models.
  • Develop context and verification tools that help agents produce creative, on-brand, high-quality work.

Requirements

  • Experience building AI-forward products, systems, agents, or models.
  • Strong technical judgment and high standards for code quality.
  • Creativity and curiosity about making subjective domains verifiable.
  • Ability to move quickly and adapt in an ambiguous startup environment.
  • Preference for simple, clear solutions over unnecessary complexity.

Nice-to-haves

  • Open-source contributions or personal projects demonstrating curiosity and initiative.
  • Background at creative companies such as Figma, Notion, Canva, Adobe, or Runway.
  • Experience with indexing or crawling at companies such as Firecrawl, Brave, Luma, or Pika.
  • Background in data-focused companies such as Mercor or Surge.

Skills

PythonAI AgentsMachine LearningReinforcement Learningembedding modelsinformation retrievalvector searchweb crawlingweb scrapinginference servingAPIssynthetic dataSecurityvulnerability mappingevaluation pipelines

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