# AI Engineer, RL - Company: [Taste Labs]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Technical Staff - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $175K – $275K - Posted: August 20, 2026 ## Job description **About the company** Taste Labs is building the data and infrastructure layer for taste. Our goal is to end AI slop. To make AI feel right, not just be correct. We raised $18.5M in seed co-led by Amplify and CRV, and most frontier labs are already customers. AI has nailed objective domains and can generate anything. The hard part left is judgement: what fits, what feels like you, what's actually GREAT. We're turning that into something measurable, starting with design. We do it on two sides: building the post-training data and RL environments that teach taste to frontier models, and the context and verification tools agents need to produce work that's more creative, more on-brand, more right. If that problem excites you, you'll like it here! **About the role** How do you judge something non-verifiable, like design? To solve subjective domains, we have to solve how to grade the difference between slop and great without the need for humans in the loop. **Types of problems you’d work on** * Research different grading methods and rubrics * Design unique tasks that can capture elements of “taste” and design capabilities * Build agent harnesses and context layers * Work on scalable RL infra * Work with internal research teams on our training pipelines * Work with the top frontier labs on how to craft environments to improve frontier models **What matters to us** * Experience in building evals, RL environments, ML or post-training. Strong backend experience as well. * You like ambiguous, hard, creative problems, and want to make subjective domains verifiable * You’re a team player and have startup DNA: you move fast, adapt, no such thing is ‘not in scope’, you like to take ownership of things. You’ll be given a lot of room to run. **Bonus points** * Open source contributions or personal projects that show you build things because you're curious * Background at creative companies (Figma, Notion, Canva, Adobe, Runway, etc.) or companies with strong index building/crawling (e.g. Firecrawl, Brave, Luma, Pika) or data (Mercor, Surge, etc.) ## Apply [Apply on Taste Labs]() Canonical job page: