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Taste LabsTaste LabsSan Francisco, CA

AI Engineer

Build AI systems for taste evaluation, synthetic data, agent tooling, retrieval, crawling, inference, and user-facing experiences. The role favors hands-on experience shipping LLM and agent systems, early-stage startup experience, and comfort inventing infrastructure in ambiguous domains.

175k – 275k/yr
On-siteML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build AI systems powering taste evaluations, tooling, data collection, APIs, and reinforcement-learning environments.
  • Develop agent architectures, memory systems, and self-improvement loops.
  • Design evaluation pipelines and synthetic data-generation systems for unverifiable domains.
  • 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.
  • Develop reliable, high-performance tooling and infrastructure.
  • Ship internal data-operations tools and external tools for expert annotators.
  • Build front-end tooling and gamified product experiences, including taste quizzes, leaderboards, and reward flows.

Requirements

  • Experience building at early-stage companies, from pre-seed through Series C.
  • Hands-on experience shipping agent systems and building with large language models.
  • Strong ability to operate in ambiguity and solve novel infrastructure problems.
  • Genuine curiosity about taste and other nuanced, difficult-to-define domains.

Nice-to-haves

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

Skills

PythonLLMsAI AgentsMachine LearningReinforcement LearningEmbeddingsinformation retrievalweb crawlingweb scrapinginference servingAPIsData PipelinesFrontend Developmentsynthetic data

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