Applied ML Engineer
Full-time•on-site•San Francisco•$200k - $350k+ 0.25% - 1.5%
About this role
As a Applied AI/ML Engineer, you’ll drive research that teaches models what great feels like across domains such as model personality and behavior, UI design, multi-modal generation, and writing tone. It’s a hard, ambiguous, and (very) cool problem space.
You’ll own full-stack research: experiments, training runs, data and eval pipelines, and publishing results. You’ll develop Taste’s internal research and proprietary models while collaborating directly with AI labs on frontier projects.
What You'll Do
Train reward models, classifiers, and verifiers for subjective domains (e.g. design, writing, visual style).
Develop frontier evaluations and benchmarks for subjective domains.
Run post-training experiments on open-source models to test new data formats and post-training techniques.
Collaborate with AI labs and creative experts to design pilots and experiments around taste.
Own the end to end pipeline.
Publish blogs and whitepapers.
You Might Be a Good Fit If You
Are obsessed with taste and want a world with less AI slop.
Have experience in ML research, Applied ML or ML research engineering, especially in post-training/fine-tuning large models (SFT, RLHF, DPO). Experience with LLM/diffusion models is required.
Think like a researcher, move like an engineer. Are creative, scrappy, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
Interview process
- 1Initial Interview
- 2Interview
- 3Initial Chat
- 4Behavioral Interview
- 5Background + Interest Screening
- 6Interview
About Taste
Taste is building the taste layer for AI - teaching models what great feels like across subjective domains.The next frontier of intelligence isn’t accuracy - it’s taste. How something sounds, looks, or resonates. We lead research with creative experts and AI labs to develop the methods, data, and evaluations that teach models to understand quality, style, and emotion.If you want a world with less AI slop and more taste, join us.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Taste pay for a Applied ML Engineer?
Taste offers a competitive compensation package for the Applied ML Engineer role. The salary range is USD 200k - 350k per year, plus 0.25% - 1.5% equity. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.
What does a Applied ML Engineer do at Taste?
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Is the Applied ML Engineer position at Taste remote?
The Applied ML Engineer position at Taste is based in San Francisco, United States and is on-site. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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