Taste Labs
AI Engineer, Fullstack
$175K–$300K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Apr 24, 2026
About the job
Build full-stack AI systems for taste evaluation, data collection, agent tooling, and user-facing products.
What you'll do
- Develop agent harnesses, memory and self-improvement loops, evaluation pipelines, synthetic data, and RL environments.
- Build embedding and retrieval infrastructure, visual web crawling and scraping, inference serving, and APIs.
- Ship internal data-operation tools, annotator tools, and gamified product experiences.
What they ask for
- Experience building at early-stage companies from pre-seed to Series C and working through ambiguity.
- Hands-on AI building experience, including shipping agent systems and building with LLMs; experience may come from work, open source, or serious personal projects.
- Curiosity about taste and creative problem-solving.
Nice to have
- Open-source contributions or personal projects demonstrating curiosity-driven building.
- Background at creative, crawling/index-building, or data companies.
Pay
$175K – $275K USD base salary; up to $300K USD base salary for exceptional candidates
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Build AI agents, taste evaluation and grading systems, synthetic data pipelines, RL environments, and the data and infrastructure that help models produce more creative, on-brand work.
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