Applied ML Engineer

You’ll own full-stack ML experiments, training runs, infra, data and eval pipelines, and publishing results. You’ll develop Taste’s internal research, evaluation design, judges and reward models while collaborating directly with AI labs on frontier projects. What You'll Do

Train reward models, classifiers, judges, 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.

Setup the infrastructure to run this.

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.

Experience in post-training and in evals/judges

LLM experience required, cannot be purely classical ML

Thinks like a researcher, moves like an engineer. Creative, scrappy, comfortable in ambiguity

Startup experience strongly preferred; deep passion for creativity and design