You'll build the AI systems that power taste evals, tooling, API and RL environments - from agent architectures and data pipelines to the product surfaces where users interact with our platform. The work skews backend (synthetic data, embeddings, crawling, evaluation systems) but you'll also ship front-end tooling and gamified experiences when needed. Early stage, high ownership, lots of building from scratch.
Core focus
Craft agent harnesses, memory and self-improvement loops
Design evaluation pipelines and synthetic data generation
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 the tooling and infrastructure that makes everything reliable and fast
Also you
Ship internal tools for data operations and external tools for expert annotators
Startup DNA: You've built at early-stage companies (pre-seed to Series C) and operate well in ambiguity
Real AI building experience: You've shipped agent systems, built with LLMs, and understand the craft - whether through your job, open source, or serious personal projects.
Genuine curiosity about taste: This problem is hard, nuanced and undefined. You find that energizing, not frustrating.
Creative problem-solving: We're not optimizing existing systems. We're inventing infrastructure for something that doesn't exist yet.
Bonus points
Open source contributions
Background at creative companies (Figma, Notion, Canva, Adobe, Runway, etc.) or companies with strong index building/crawling (e.g. Firecrawl, Brave, Luma, Pika).
Personal projects that show you build things because you're curious
About Taste
Taste is building the taste layer for AI - teaching models what great feels like across subjective domains.
Building the "infra layer for taste", working with both foundation model labs and app layer companies
Raised $18.5M, seed was co-led by Amplify and CRV
Team members from Exa, Nous Research, Snorkel, Scale AI, Palantir, and more.
We're on a mission to end AI slop and help create a world with more taste. You'll work at the cutting edge of AI research with creative experts, shaping the future of how AI understands subjective quality and aesthetics.
Required skills
Python
React
TypeScript
LLM & Agent Frameworks: LangChain, Pydantic AI, Llama Index