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# AI Engineer (Back-end)

- **Company:** Taste, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $275,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft OneNote, Open Source Technology, Backend, Adobe, Figma, Data Generation
- **Published:** June 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d18f4da3616399ad

## About the Role

Do you have experience in AI tools proficiency?

## Description

You'll build the AI systems that power taste agent harnesses, memory, evals, tooling, data collection, index, search, graph, crawling, scraping, security and more.

Types of problems you'd work on

 * 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
 * Manage security sweeps vulnerability mapping
 * Develop the tooling and infrastructure that makes everything reliable and fast

What matters to us

 * Deeply technical: you're deeply opinionated about what good code means, you have an AI-forward setup while being anti-slop, you care deeply about the craft.
 * You're creative and have genuine curiosity about 'taste' and making subjective domains verifiable
 * You have startup DNA: you move fast, adapt, no such thing as 'not in scope', you like ambiguous, hard problems
 * AI experience: you need experience building AI forward products, systems, agents, models and more.
 * You care about arriving at the simple, clear solution vs. the complex one

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.)

Compensation Range: $175K - $275K


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