# AI Engineer

**Company:** [Taste Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/taste-labs)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $175k – $275k/yr
**Skills:** Python, LLMs, AI Agents, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Embeddings, information retrieval, web crawling, web scraping, inference serving, APIs, Data Pipelines, Frontend Development, synthetic data
**Posted:** 2026-04-24

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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