Taste Labs
AI Engineer, Backend
$175K–$300K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Feb 20, 2026
About the job
Build backend AI systems and infrastructure for taste-focused agent products, including retrieval, data collection, evaluation, and inference.
What you'll do
- Build agent harnesses, memory, and self-improvement loops; design evaluation pipelines and synthetic data generation.
- Create scalable embedding and retrieval infrastructure, plus web crawling and scraping systems for visual data.
- Set up inference serving and APIs, manage security sweeps and vulnerability mapping, and develop reliable, fast tooling.
What they ask for
- Experience building AI-forward products, systems, agents, or models.
- Deep technical ability and strong coding craft.
- Creativity and genuine curiosity about making subjective domains verifiable.
- Ability to move quickly, adapt, and tackle ambiguous problems.
Nice to have
- Open-source contributions or personal projects demonstrating curiosity.
- Experience at creative, crawling/index-building, or data companies.
Pay
$175K – $275K USD base salary; up to $300K USD base salary for exceptional candidates
AI focus
Build agent systems, memory and self-improvement loops, evaluation pipelines, synthetic data generation, embedding and retrieval infrastructure, visual-data crawling and scraping, and inference services.
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