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title: "AI Engineer, RL"
company: "Taste Labs"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/taste-labs"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/taste-labs-ai-engineer-rl-ba92f254-7981-4b15-924c-69bdf010049a"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/taste-labs/e0c6ec3b-f21f-40aa-82c4-6c7e040a8f05"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
skills: ["figma"]
salary: "$175,000–$275,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-08-20T21:15:53.649Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-05T08:27:34.728Z
---

# AI Engineer, RL

**Taste Labs** · San Francisco

Salary: $175,000–$275,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/taste-labs/e0c6ec3b-f21f-40aa-82c4-6c7e040a8f05

## About the role

**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.)

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